not genuine

He has more than 10,000 shekels, worth more than $2,700, in 10-shekel coins that no one will accept for fear that they’re not genuine.

She said Kwan was masquerading as a community nurse so he could "administer a lethal injection" to his victim, and Mr O'Hara had no reason to suspect his visitor was not genuine.

Routh does seem to have been genuinely passionate about Ukraine and eager to get somehow involved, but the claims about his activities—propagated by himself and spread by others, out of gullibility or opportunism—are not genuine in the slightest.

A Home Office spokesperson said there were "stringent systems in place to identify and prevent fraudulent visa applications, and any individual being targeted by these fraudsters needs to know that if their sponsorship certificate is not genuine, it will not succeed".

Munyaradzi Chinyama, a Zimbabwean Bolt driver based in Cape Town, told the BBC he received three ride requests before he realised they were not genuine.