estafa
/esˈtafa/ · B2 · noun · f
scam
💸 es-TAFA sounds like a staffer: the shop staff ran a scam on you
estafa likely comes from Italian staffa, stirrup: the idea was to knock a rider's foot out of the stirrup and rob him. The verb estafar means to swindle, and the person who does it is an estafador.