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I am not sure if there's a word for it, but I am almost positive that I heard a word for it. It might be a noun or it might be a verb, but there was definitely a word for it.
For example, let's take the following example:
The ___ sold me some insurance product that didn't suit my need at all, which led me to financial ruin.
The only word I can think of are telemarketer and scammer, but those two words are too general.
If it's an actual sales person selling you a real product, then "telemarketer" is the correct word for this context. If it's a fraudulent transaction, then "scammer" is the correct word.
You may be thinking of words for various types of scammers, such as: cheater, chiseler, con man or confidence man, cozener, defrauder, dodger, fakir, finagler, fraudster, hoaxer, hustler, scamster, shark, sharper, sharpie (or sharpy), skinner, swindler, tricker, trickster and probably a number of others.
