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When prompted to pay, he realized it was a hoax and dug deeper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Despite developing the machine with scientists, Ernetti’s claims of what he saw — including Christ’s crucifixion — quickly became sensationalized fodder, with some believing in Ernetti’s discovery and others dismissing it as a hoax.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

In 2024, the Foreign Office confirmed then-foreign secretary Lord Cameron had been the victim of a hoax call in which someone pretended to be former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Burnham is not the first prominent British politician to fall victim to this type of hoax.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

They fear to swallow a great hoax in public, a hoax already refused by Karhide, a hoax perhaps even invented by Karhide.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Fox, who has been living with Parkinson’s for more than 30 years, has been the subject of death hoaxes over the years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

He posted online about his ordeal to raise the alarm about increasingly sophisticated online hoaxes.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

But he entertained audiences in many ways, with everything from blatant hoaxes to Shakespearean theater.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

When asked about the slip, Hegseth accused Goldberg of "peddling hoaxes."

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025

MACUSA’s Department of No-Maj Misinformation has put in extensive work to convince Muggles that sightings of Hodags have been hoaxes.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

In May 2010, Lloyd thought he was being hoaxed when an agent finally agreed to work with him.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023

Even odder: Te’o himself had been hoaxed, because he’d never met the person he thought he was dating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

Either TMZ got hoaxed or ‘Empire’ star Jussie Smollett straight up fabricated details, but there is no way the hate crime described in the TMZ story occurred as described.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 29, 2019

Another self‑publicising sister first concocted a stunt involving a forged letter from the King of the Zulus and then hoaxed newspapers with a claim that assassins had tried to stab her.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013

We have been hoaxed along by comparable substitutes for technology right up to the present.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The author’s precise style is crisp as ever but with a wider emotional reach, exploring teenage friendship, imagination, hoaxing, propriety and rebellion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022

They devised a political education program, where many folks contemplated the use of hoaxing as a mechanism for social protest.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2020

“The hoaxing charge is problematic for Callimachi and the Times,” Wemple wrote.

From Fox News ● Sep. 29, 2020

Sadly, we may never know, because the field of humanities hoaxing appears to suffer from several of the flaws it aims to expose.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2018

Very few words were said on the way, for the major entertained strong doubts whether Terence had not been hoaxing him, and whether the account he had given of himself was not altogether fictitious.

From Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War by Walter Paget