诈

to cheat / to swindle / to pretend / to feign / to draw sb out / to try to extract information by deceit or bluff

at first / suddenly / abruptly / to spread / (of hair) to stand on end / bristling

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

to rip off / to extort (money) / extortion / blackmail

to cheat

crafty / cunning / deceitful

extortion and blackmail (idiom)

treachery / devious / a rogue

to extort under false pretenses / to blackmail / to bluff / to defraud

lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom) / fig. each tries to outwit the other / deceit and treachery

to be linked to fraudulent activity

to deceive and swindle across the board (idiom)

phishing

tricky and hypocritical

to claim ownership (of stolen goods)

wire fraud

there can never be too much deception in war / in war nothing is too deceitful / all's fair in war

deceitful / crafty / artful

the unvarnished truth is better than a cunning ruse (idiom) / honesty is the best policy

extortion

brutal, greedy, arrogant and deceitful (idiom)

deceitful

deceiver