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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

But addressing the hoax while on a visit to the central English city of Wolverhampton, Burnham said nothing sensitive had been discussed in the messages.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

He would later admit it was all a hoax, but not before the area became Hodag Country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

“I mean, what’s to stop someone from dialing your number a million times and then playing the biggest hoax of all time on you?”

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

He spoke of an "episode in which numerous actors and interests converge", doubling down on his assertion that hoaxes and rumours spread by social media had sparked the crisis.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Fang was arrested and charged with one federal count of false information and hoaxes, according to the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The FBI said in April that Americans lost over $893 million last year to AI-enabled hoaxes, including voice cloning scams.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

She finds out about these hoaxes when job seekers call to follow up on overtures they received from “Sarah Englade.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

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

In 1996 Diana was hoaxed by the broadcaster Victor-Lewis-Smith posing as Stephen Hawking.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2020

The man who hoaxed detectives by claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper has died, police have confirmed.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2019

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

It’s really trying to explore the different ways that we’ve done that over history, and trying to understand how we, as Americans specifically, think about hoaxing and is hoaxing something American?

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2017

"Nonsense, Isa's hoaxing you," said Walter, stirring his coffee.

From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley