swindle

nouns

the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
"that book is a fraud"
cheat, rig, swindle

verbs

deprive of by deceit
"He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize
is derived from
swindler