Humbuggery
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The practice of humbug; false pretense; imposition.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The practice of imposition.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
trickery
;
deception
Word Usage
"But, any how, the people are getting up to that kind of humbuggery; and I'm afraid, that, like the Indian's gun, it would cost in the end more than it came to. ""