Word imbroglio . It is said of the lies or lies of scammers, that they pretend to be what they are not to deceive others. The origin is in the New Testament, by the word phylactery ("Tefillin"), since the Pharisees used to use larger and more visible ones in public to demonstrate greater religious authority, something qualified as false by Jesus in several biblical passages where he called them hypocrites. See whitewashed tomb.
