Flimflam (noun)

Deception, fraud, trickery, or a confidence game.

Origin:

Of uncertain origin, probably an alteration of flim-flam.

Examples:

1. He was accused of running a flimflam.
2. He was a victim of flimflam.
3. The flimflam was a clever deception.
4. The flimflam artist was able to cheat many people out of their money.
5. The flimflam was exposed and the con artist was arrested.