sham
「見せかけ，ごまかし，いんちき」を表すことばは英語にもたくさんありますが，このshamも押さえておきましょう。LODCEは"someone or something that is not what they are claimed to be - used to show disapproval"と定義しています。（Nat）
U.S. Seizes 14 7-Eleven Stores in Immigration Raids
More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than $180 million in revenue by running a “modern-day plantation system,” prosecutors in New York charged on Monday, built on the unpaid labor of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers.
Federal authorities seized 14 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia, arresting nine owners and managers, and seized property, including five homes. They are investigating 40 other 7-Eleven franchises in New York City and elsewhere in one of the largest criminal immigrant employment investigations ever conducted by the Justice and Homeland Security Departments, officials said.
