"deceptive scheme" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a plan with the intention to deceive or mislead, or when referring to a fraudulent act. For example, "Rachel fell victim to a deceptive scheme that promised financial gains with no effort."
In the process, it also hints at the reason behind the passing of those naïvely open ways: another band of plotters who worked covertly on a deceptive scheme with the World Trade Center in mind.
From their perch online, the lawsuit said, the so-called payday lenders engage in "an illegal and deceptive scheme to originate high-interest, personal loans to consumers in New York".
The SEC, the US financial regulator, alleges they engaged in a "fraudulent and deceptive scheme" to take cash and other assets from Hollinger International, the former parent company of the Telegraph newspapers.
"By this action," the draft complaint begins, "the United States seeks to recover civil penalties" against JPMorgan Chase and its investment banking arm "for a fraudulent and deceptive scheme to package and sell residential mortgage-backed securities" that the bank "knew contained a material amount of materially defective loans".
But the nation's Securities and Exchange Commission this week concluded that Rappler had used a "deceptive scheme" to violate constitutional rules that require media companies to be fully owned by Filipinos.
A statewide television blitz by opponents has painted the initiative as a "deceptive scheme" bankrolled by "two Texas oil companies". The companies, Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., would "pollute our air, kill clean energy jobs and keep us addicted to costly oil," the TV spots charged.
Ryan also said that teams had used deceptive schemes to double-cover Burress at times.
"Today's actions take aim at revenues from Iran's petrochemical sector, as well as deceptive schemes Iran has employed in an effort to evade sanctions on its oil sales and its airlines".
This brings about a cat and mouse game where the U.S. Department of Treasury works to uncover deceptive schemes and fine parties that facilitate sanctions evasion.
The Federal Trade Commission said a Florida enterprise collected millions with a deceptive marketing scheme aimed at Americans searching for health coverage.
The lawsuit accuses UBS, a small Swiss firm, and two private firms based in Liechtenstein and their employees of luring Mr. Olenicoff into becoming a client and a participant in a deceptive investment scheme intended to cheat the Internal Revenue Service of millions of dollars in taxes.
