さぎ
Meanings
Noun
1. fraud; swindle; graft; cheating; trick; scam
2. saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them; flaking out
as 行く行く詐欺, etc.; modeled from オレオレ詐欺
Pitch accent
さ
ぎ
Used in vocabulary (25 in total)
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
marriage fraud; fake marriage
phone scam involving a pretended relative
bank transfer scam; telephone banking fraud
petty swindling; petty swindler
clickbaiting; giving something a misleading title
confidence trick
online fraud
phishing email; fraudulent email
lying about one's age; age fabrication
financial fraud
one-click fraud (online fraud and extortion technique used by spammers)
fraud based on demanding payment for false claims or non-existent bills
romance scam
securities fraud
confidence game
telephone fraud where the caller pretends to be a relative of the victim
Click fraud
one-ring fraud (attempt to encourage a return call to a fraudster's number)
Nigerian fraud; 419 fraud
smartphone app malware; Trojan horse app
organized crime group specializing in fraud (esp. bank transfer scams)
crab meat mail-order fraud
Examples (6 in total)
It kinda sounds like a scam.
Is this some kind of scam?
Recently there have been a lot of nasty incidents with fraud.