swindle

Noun

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
  • that book is a fraud
    

Verb

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cheat , rig