コンゲーム

noun

con game; confidence trick

A scam in which the victim is persuaded to trust the perpetrator. The term is a direct loan from English and is used in Japanese to refer to the same type of fraud.

• 彼かれは巧こう妙みょうなコンゲームで大たい金きんをだまし取とった。

  He swindled a large sum of money with a clever con game.