Related Clues:

• Only make-believe
• Take in, in a way
• Fleecing operation
• Three-card ___
• Hornet's defense
• White-collar crime
• Empty pretense
• Attempted deception
• Mare's nest
• Pyramid scheme, for one
• Pyramid scheme, e.g.
• Apiarist's woe
• Taking-in activity
• Sucker play
• Subject of an S.E.C. inquiry