Scam vs Finesse - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between scam and finesse

is that scam is fraudulent deal while finesse is finesse.

is to defraud or embezzle.

(wikipedia scam) (en noun)

Fraudulent deal.

That marketing scheme looks like a scam to me .

* con game * confidence trick * See also

(scamm)

To defraud or embezzle.

They tried to scam her out of her savings.

* (verb)

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(uncountable) The property of having grace, elegance, skill, or balance.

(uncountable) Skill in handling of a situation.

(countable) An adroit maneuver.

(countable, bridge) A technique which allows one to promote tricks based on a favorable position of one or more cards in the hands of the opponent.

(finess)

(ambitransitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse (see noun sense above).

To handle or manage carefully or skillfully.

To evade.