spoofing (?.)
- bamboozlement
- befooling
- bluffing
- calculated deception
- circumvention
- conning
- deceiving
- deception
- deceptiveness
- defrauding
- delusion
- delusiveness
- dupery
- enmeshment
- ensnarement
- entanglement
- entrapment
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- flimflam
- flimflammery
- fond illusion
- fooling
- hallucination
- hoodwinking
- illusion
- kidding
- mirage
- outwitting
- overreaching
- phantasm
- putting on
- self-deception
- snow job
- song and dance
- spoofery
- subterfuge
- swindling
- trickiness
- tricking
- victimization
- vision
- willful misconception
- wishful thinking