Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
profesionales de la impostura
English translation:
professional fraudsters
Spanish term
Costa Rica
profesionales de la impostura
| 4 +1 | professional fraudsters |
Cecilia Gowar
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| 3 +2 | con artists |
Robert Forstag
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| 4 +1 | Flim-flam professionals |
neilmac
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| 3 | master impostors/great pretenders |
Marie Wilson
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Proposed translations
United Kingdom
I read the Alethiometer
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, French to Spanish, and 1 more.
professional fraudsters
United States
Translating words, preserving meaning
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, English
con artists
"Con artists" implies that the persons in question *make money* from their illicit activities (which is the sense of the Spanish *profesionales*).
master impostors/great pretenders
Flim-flam professionals
Flimflam (informal)
noun
noun: flim-flam
1. Nonsensical or insincere talk. -> "pseudo-intellectual flimflam"
2. a confidence trick. ->"flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials"
verb
verb: flim-flam
1. Swindle (someone) with a confidence trick.
"the tribe was flimflammed out of its land"
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...flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials...
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Carol Gullidge
: even though it's "profesionales", I like film-flam artists +- fraudster, trickster,...). Reminds slightly me of Bob Dylan
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"You have impeccable taste" :)
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