1. Synonyms for Charlatanism include charlatanry, quackery, flimflam, deceit, fraud, imposture, deception, dishonesty, deceitfulness and pretense

2. I suspect those guys are flimflam Artists, that's why they want so much money up front

3. Bunco, Bunco game, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con, sting

4. Synonyms for Boondoggle include woggle, con, fraud, swindle, scam, trick, deception, flimflam, sting and gyp

5. Brinkley, notorious purveyor of goat-gland flimflam, and unsung pioneer who changed the face of American politics, mass media, popular taste, and–yes--medicine.” —Joel Best, author of Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads "Charlatan is a serious work of history that reads like a

6. Set aside the usual circus ring tricks of political Chicanery.: The social stigma of losing necessitated strategy, even Chicanery.: Fans of today adore the cheaters of the past, precisely because of their Chicanery.: A CBS movie revisits Enron, with all its Chicanery, flimflam, excess, hanky-panky, and its descent into the dark, if darkly comic, side of capitalism.