Definition that contains fraudulent scheme
- cheat the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- rig the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- swindle the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- pyramid scheme a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in