Fraud

Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

A trap or snare.

intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

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