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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | play a joke on, pull someone's leg |
| Type of | lead on, cozen, deceive, delude |
| Derivation | hoaxer |
Examples of hoax
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Her hoax was elaborate, and by most accounts she carried herself like a soldier.
From the sacbee.com
On March 27, The Times reported it had been the victim of a hoax and apologized.
From the jsonline.com
Pierce was puzzled that the NRA hasn't disowned the app if in fact it is a hoax.
From the keller.blogs.nytimes.com
So yeah, it was a little like that story which was a hoax, but not as glamorous.
From the scienceblogs.com
Should we assume that you were unaware of this hoax and were an ignorant victim?
From the economist.com
The component became famous in the early 2000s as the subject of an e-mail hoax.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Days after Stalin's death the plot was declared a hoax by the Soviet government.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Dag Henrik Esrum-Hellerup was the subject of a hoax entry in the 1980 New Grove.
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Controlled, viable fusion power has proven elusive, despite the occasional hoax.
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- Fraud: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- Subject to a playful hoax or joke
- A hoax is a deliberate attempt to deceive or trick people into believing or accepting something which the hoaxer (the person or group creating the hoax) knows is false.
- (Hoaxes) A percentage of recordings may be hoaxes created by frauds or pranksters.^[36]
- Describes an intentionally distributed false warning that is treated as true and passed on by many users. A well-known hoax told users to delete supposedly Malware files such as SULFNBK.EXE and JDBGMGR.EXE, despite the fact that these are important system files.
- Hoax shows fake security warnings that are quite annoying. The aim of this spyware is to trick a computer user to download third-party cleaning utilities, usually anti-spyware scanners.
- Usually an email that gets mailed in chain letter fashion describing some devastating, highly unlikely type of virus. Hoaxes are detectable as having no file attachment, no reference to a third party who can validate the claim, and by the general tone of the message.
- An act meant to trick or deceive a user into taking an action, usually detrimental to the user or the IT system, that the user otherwise would not take [NASA] (see also social engineering, system, users, threat)
- Deliberate trickery or deceit used to gain an advantage.
