Estafa in english
Fraud
pronunciation: frɔd part of speech: noun
pronunciation: frɔd part of speech: noun
In gestures
estafa = scam ; swindle ; rip-off ; swindling ; cheating ; confidence scam ; con trick ; con ; con job ; diddle ; grift.
Example: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.Example: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.Example: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.Example: The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.Example: The author discerns 3 levels of cheating and deceit and examines why scientists stoop to bias and fraud, particularly in trials for new treatments.Example: He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.Example: The social contract has been the con trick by which the bosses have squeezed more and more out of the workers for themselves.Example: He has long argued that populist conservatism is nothing more than a con.Example: The global warming hoax had all the classic marks of a con job from the very beginning.Example: Some of the case studies were actually quite disturbing - charities raising money then sending it to Switzerland with no record of what it was spent on, for example, and other such diddles.Example: Earlier racketeers dreamed of such a grift, but they quickly realized they could never get away with it.more:
» estafa comercial = business scam .
Example: The author reviews a number of Web sites that offer product warnings and business scam alerts.» estafa de la venta en cadena = pyramid scam .
Example: This group voluntarily look for and report any illegal activity conducted over the Internet, such as pyramid scams, transmission of stolen credit card and calling card numbers, and pedophilia.estafar = cheat (on) ; defraud ; rip + Nombre + off ; swindle ; shortchange ; bilk ; humbug ; con ; hoax ; scam ; diddle ; flim-flam ; take + Nombre + for a ride ; stitch + Nombre + up ; pull + a fast one (on + Nombre) ; fox ; be on the fiddle.
Example: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.Example: The librarian wishes to maximise access to information while not defrauding authors and publishers.Example: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.Example: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.Example: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.Example: With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.Example: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.Example: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.Example: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.Example: Insurance rates are off the chart due to people scamming insurance companies.Example: It should be remembered that the last time they were here, they were diddled -- Could it be a case of 'once bitten twice shy'?.Example: You are being flim-flammed by just another industry shill.Example: That is when the King realized he had been taken for a ride and it took an innocent child to point out his situation.Example: It seems to me as if the person who had overall responsibility for paying bills has stitched her up.Example: This is the problem -- she has a history of appearing to 'pull a fast one on' the American people.Example: Time and again I have noticed how the US public have been foxed by both Democrats and Republicans alike.Example: I gather then, from what you are saying, that he has been on the fiddle syphoning money from the company.