Deceit
Scheme
Scheme noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
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Ingway is running a complicated scheme of deceit and backstabbing intended partly to prevent his own cursed death.
Source: Evil Versus Evil / Video Games -
Chris soon finds that Aaron - and other innocents - are being caught in the web of deceit and murder that Clyde has enacted to keep his cleanup fraud scheme from becoming the town's biggest scandal in years.
Source: Series / Blood Over Water
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