Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way - hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) - chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
Derived forms: trickeries
See also: trick
Type of: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, misrepresentation