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サギ
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
Alt. forms
詐さ欺ぎ
95%
サギ
2%
さぎ
1%
Pitch accent
サ
ギ
Used in: 77
Used in vocabulary (24 in total)
swindler; fraudster; trickster; con man
marriage fraud; fake marriage
phone scam involving a pretended relative
21 more...
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.
George was tricked into buying the land.
What he did is, in plain language, fraud.
As far as I know, he wasn't involved in that fraud scheme.