Benjamin Franklin was a notorious hoaxer during his tenure as publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette.
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So, reader beware: We are talking to someone who claims to be a proud hoaxer.
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Similar claims were echoed by Wohl, a disgraced right-wing hoaxer, who falsely tweeted on Jan.
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It quickly became a disturbing choose-your-own-adventure seen through the eyes of a deliberate hoaxer.
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The hoaxer, who was a student, also gave a cellphone number of a girl at the school.
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The hoaxer usually chose elementary schools, because those threats created more chaos and were taken more seriously.
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Most recently, a hoaxer targeted a "high-profile person in the cryptocurrency world," according to the Daily Post.
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Pozner has received voice mails from what he called a "hoaxer," and has experienced other online hate as well.
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But, if the target is broadcasting himself live, the hoaxer can see his handiwork play out in real time.
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If we mostly ignore it, and paint over it, the racist or hoaxer doesn't get the satisfaction of our reaction.
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In an intercultural hoax, therefore, the hoaxer is often white and the fake persona is often a person of color.
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Repeated security breaches On several occasions, the hoaxer contacted planes making their final approach, pretending to be from the control tower.
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Previously, the hoaxer would have to imagine his target's distress when a team of heavily armed police officers broke down his door.
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The hoaxer, Wolfgang Halbig, was charged with "unlawful possession of personal identification of another person" and released after paying a $5,000 bond.
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Manning said the prohibited book in her prison cell was "Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy" by Gabriella Coleman, about the computer hacker group Anonymous.
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His targets included the Israeli Embassy in Washington and a Delaware state senator, Ernesto Lopez, who had issued a statement condemning the hoaxer.
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The Hate Crime Hoaxer, the Mexican Rapist, the America-Hating Muslim, the AIDS-Infected Haitian: each of these ideas has a particular serviceability.
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When video came out proving my account, those who labeled me a hoaxer changed their tune to suggest I deserved what I got.
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Buzz Aldrin once punched a moon hoaxer in the faceAmazingly, there are still some people who don&apost think we landed on the moon.
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A more savvy hoaxer might tinker around Wikipedia for a while, editing commas and small errors in other articles, before trying to establish a new hoax.
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Reporter Caitlin Dewey explained the change in her sign-off column: There's a simple, economic explanation for this shift: If you're a hoaxer, it's more profitable.
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But the White House embracing a hoaxer like O'Keefe was a low moment for those of us who believe in the dignity of our nation's highest office.
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Mr. Horner has been described as a hoaxer and a liar, but in 2014 he told The Washington Post that he was actually aiming to be funny.
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Tyler Barriss, a prolific and seemingly unremorseful repeat swatter and bomb hoaxer whose fakery got a man killed in 2017, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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As the parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim, 6-year-old Noah Pozner, we have battled with online platforms hosting hoaxer content for over five years.
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In December 2015, WIRED reported that Australian academic Craig Steven Wright either created Bitcoin, or he is a brilliant hoaxer who desperately wanted the world to believe that he had.
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And his deep appreciation for ruses has lately extended to a role as an associate producer on "Art of the Prank," a coming documentary about the media hoaxer Joey Skaggs.
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For your dedication I believe I owe you a palate cleanser so, just special for you, here is a video of Buzz Aldrin popping a pushy moon hoaxer in the mouth. Enjoy!
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There is the hoaxer who gets in touch to say that Grondona and Sepp Blatter, the former FIFA president, had a joint bank account, in the United States, in their own names.
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When there is going to be such a widely available interview with attention given to one of the hoaxer ringleaders, it is going to unleash the trolls on us tenfold all over again.
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Soon after Lavrusik reported himself safe on Twitter, a hoaxer hacked his account and began posting fake messages, including one that asked readers to "find his friend" with a picture of the popular YouTuber Keemstar.
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And while "the U.S.-based movement of Anons seems very small, [it is] still robust in other parts of the world," said Gabriella Coleman, an anthropologist who wrote Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous.
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The major security breach has seen a hoaxer interfering with incoming passenger flights at Melbourne Airport, in Tullamarine, and Avalon Airport, in Avalon, on at least 15 occasions, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said in a statement.
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In the midst of the attack, an unknown hoaxer hijacked a verified Twitter account belonging to Vadim Lavrusik, a product manager at YouTube, and used the high-profile account to implicate a YouTube broadcaster in the shooting.
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The boards first took on a rider in 20153, then launched on Kickstarter with a developer's kit the next year and showed up in its first public prototype form with none other than skateboarding legend (and hoverboard hoaxer) Tony Hawk onboard.
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"We are gratified that prolific Sandy Hook hoaxer and serial harasser of the families of victims Wolfgang Halbig has been arrested," said Mr. Pozner, who founded HONR, a network of volunteers who seek to expunge online content targeting the victims of tragedy.
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This week on CYBER we have Biella Coleman, a professor of anthropology at McGill University in Montreal who wrote the comprehensive book on the group—Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous—to talk about what became of the infamous collective.
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Adam Back, another cryptocurrency pioneer mentioned extensively in the new excerpt, says that many—potentially all—of the verifiable details in the story already exist in the public domain, making it hard to determine whether the writings reflect true, first-hand knowledge or merely thorough research by a hoaxer.
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Alan Abel, a professional hoaxer who for more than half a century gleefully hoodwinked the American public — not least of all by making himself the subject of an earnest news obituary in The New York Times in 1980 — apparently actually did die, on Friday, at his home in Southbury, Conn.
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Ms. Konnikova's first chapter attempts to explain the psychology of both the grifter and the mark; from there, she spends a chapter on each station of the double-cross, starting with the put-up (the process of identifying the perfect victim), then moving along to the play (seducing the victim), the rope (pitching the scam), the tale, the convincer, the breakdown and so on, detailing the psychological mechanisms that both hoaxer and hoaxee engage.
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He repurposed it to honor Noah and other victims of hoaxer and hate sites.
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Adam Stuart Busby (born 1948) is a convicted terrorist, malicious hoaxer,Trib Live. 16 August 2012. Pitt threat suspect Adam Stuart Busby a 'serial hoaxer,' wannabe terrorist by Margaret Harding Scottish Nationalist and claims to be the founder of the Scottish National Liberation Army.31 BBC News - Scotland.
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Kurtz wrote that Carrington's testimony was uncorroborated by other witnesses and that he was either a naïve believer or a "fraudulent hoaxer".
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Arnold D. Harvey (born 1947) is an English historian, novelist and hoaxer. He originated a hoax claiming that Charles Dickens met Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Many of Brodkin's pranks were featured in a TV programme Britain's Greatest Hoaxer which was shown on Channel 4 on 7 February 2017.
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Alan Irwin Abel (August 2, 1924 – September 14, 2018) was an American hoaxer, writer, and mockumentary filmmaker famous for several hoaxes that became media circuses.
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In 2014, in part thanks to Twitter, a picture of "a laboratory with a lot of cats strapped into frightening-looking racks" was posted with the caption, "Retweet if you say NO to animal testing." More than 5,000 people spread the message, unaware that at some point, the photo had "been deliberately misattributed by a hoaxer". This hoaxer took the photo from the Gainesville Sun news website. The cats in the photo had been rescued from an abusive hoarder.
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Bruce Ronald Henderson, also known as Bruce Grenville and Martin Renwick (born 1950), is a New Zealand anarchist, hoaxer and producer of artistamps. He is particularly known for the creation of the fictional Sultanate of Occussi- Ambeno.
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It was published in Image Comics from October 2007 to May 2011.Proof at ComicVine.comProof Endangered at ComicVine.com "Donations to Clarity", a 2011 novel by Noah Baird, tells the story of a Bigfoot who falls in love with a Bigfoot hoaxer.
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Spirit photography hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840–1901) of France fakes telekinesis in this 1875 cabinet card photograph titled Fluidic Effect. Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840–1901) was a French medium and spirit photographer.Harry Houdini. (2011 edition). Originally published in 1924.
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The malignant tumor that cost Bader his eye eventually resurfaced. Bader/Johnson died on September 16, 1966, at St. Joseph's Medical Hospital in Omaha. His death meant that the question of whether he was an amnesiac or a hoaxer was never resolved.
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On January 4, 1990, racial hoaxer and double murderer Charles Stuart committed suicide by leaping from the bridge. Legislation was passed to transfer the bridge from Massport to the new Massachusetts Department of Transportation, effective January 1, 2010.Chapter 25 of the Acts of 2009. Section 144.
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Eusapia Palladino "levitates" a table while researcher Alexander Aksakof (right) monitors for fraud, Milan, 1892. Spirit photography hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in this 1875 cabinet card photograph titled Fluidic Effect. There have been claimants of psychokinetic ability throughout history. Angelique Cottin (ca.
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The photos show what look like a cigar-shaped object resting in a lunar crater. The hoaxer apparently used these photos to create the image of a pock-marked alien spacecraft on the Moon. The NASA photos are real. However, NASA never claimed they include images of alien spacecraft.
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That fear was proven correct as the club, after an investigation into the 'hoax agent' incident, terminated his contract subject to the right of appeal. Shortly after his release, Sandaza attempted to sue the club over this breach of contract. On 18 July 2013, Sandaza dropped his lawsuit against the club and the hoaxer.
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On Saturday, 26 November 1977, Southern TV's Andrew Gardner was presenting the early-evening news. At 17:10 the TV picture wobbled slightly, followed by a deep buzz. The audio was replaced by a distorted voice delivering a message for almost six minutes. The hoaxer claimed to be Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command.
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It also offers an 18-hole course, a shop and other facilities. The Furness Golf Centre is located on the outskirts of Barrow close to Roanhead and is home to a 14-bay driving range, golf shop, swing studio and the Fairway Hotel. The hoaxer Maurice Flitcroft, known as the "world's worst golfer" lived and worked in the town.
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The "Wearside Jack" hoaxer was given unusual credibility when analysis of saliva on the envelopes he sent showed he had the same blood group as the Yorkshire Ripper had left at crime scenes, a type shared by only 6% of the population. The hoaxer appeared to know details of the murders which had not been released to the press, but which in fact he had acquired from his local newspaper and pub gossip. The official response to the criticisms led to the implementation of the forerunner of the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System, the development of the Major Incident Computer Application (MICA), developed between West Yorkshire Police and ISIS Computer Services. In response to the police reaction to the murders, the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group organised a number of 'Reclaim the Night' marches.
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Andy Murray, "Nat's advert star is serial telly hoaxer", The Sun, 19 May 2001, p. 7. MacDougall won with a majority of 10,075. Within months he was facing criticism for lack of activity, being named by a Daily Mail survey as the third least active Scottish backbench MP.Isabel Oakeshott, "MPs who leave the House speechless", Daily Mail, 3 January 2002, p. 15.
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In three programmes shown over consecutive weeks in BBC2's Timewatch strand, Allan Francovich interviewed key Gladio players such as Propaganda Due head, Licio Gelli, Italian neofascist and terrorist Vincenzo Vinciguerra, Venetian judge Felice Casson, Italian Gladio commander General Gerardo Serravale, Belgian Senator Roger Lallemand, Belgian gendarme Martial Lekue and former CIA director William Colby. Also included was "hoaxer" Oswald LeWinter.
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At that time, the Hannington UHF television transmitter was unusual in being one of the few main transmitters which rebroadcast an off-air signal received from another transmitter (the Independent Broadcasting Authority's Rowridge transmitter on the Isle of Wight), rather than being fed directly by a landline. As a consequence it was open to this kind of signal intrusion, as even a relatively low-powered transmission very close to the rebroadcast receiver could overwhelm its reception of the intended signal, resulting in the unauthorised transmission being amplified and rebroadcast across a far wider area. The IBA stated to carry out a hoax would take "a considerable amount of technical know-how" and a spokesman for Southern Television confirmed "A hoaxer jammed our transmitter in the wilds of North Hampshire by taking another transmitter very close to it." The hoaxer has not been identified.
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Retrieved on 2009-06-19. The community was also responsible for a hoax that claimed actress Betty White had died. After a post titled "Renner, Just Happy to Be Here" was approved to the community, the original poster edited the post to show a screen grab of a TMZ article claiming White had died.Betty White is just fine -- though one hoaxer better lie low for a while.
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The Baffler. Jasper had been sick of the attention that reporters were paying to people involved in the Seattle grunge scene and pulled the prank to get back at them. The Times demanded that Frank fax over an apology for claiming it had printed false information, believing that it was Frank who was the hoaxer. Frank instead sent a letter standing by the story.
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In 1926, a hoaxer named Frank Power claimed in the Sunday Referee newspaper that Kitchener's body had been found by a Norwegian fisherman. Power brought a coffin back from Norway and prepared it for burial in St Paul's Cathedral. At this point, however, the authorities intervened and the coffin was opened in the presence of police and a distinguished pathologist. The box was found to contain only tar for weight.
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They witnessed the sack floating away for 20 yards where it settled down at the fence. When the men went to retrieve the sack, a voice was heard, "You won't touch this sack anymore." A follow up report was published on February 18, 1890 with the title, "A Weird Witch: More Tales of a Mulhattanish Flavor from Adams Station." In the late 19th century, Joseph Mulhattan was a known hoaxer of newspaper articles.
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This was approved, seven days later, by the 'Conseil d'Etat' in Brussels. Several members of the Beyens de Grambais family had exercised noble professions and this was usurped by the descendants of the modest Beyens of Merxem. The kings of arms in Brussels were notoriously open to receiving bribes for confirmation of falsified genealogies. The genealogist and hoaxer Charles Poplimont also made from them the descendants of the noble family Beyens de Grambais.
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The bridge was originally going to be named after local hero Lynn Hardy, however was petitioned against it due to the passing of Bradley Lowery. During the search for the Yorkshire Ripper, the accent of "Wearside Jack", the author of a hoax letter claiming to be from the Ripper, was identified by the forensic linguist Stanley Ellis as that of the Castletown area. The hoaxer was eventually revealed to have come from nearby Pennywell.
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Maurice Gerald Flitcroft (23 November 1929 – 24 March 2007) was a British golfer and audacious hoaxer. Flitcroft became notorious after hitting a score of 121 in the qualifying competition for the 1976 Open Championship—the highest score recorded at the Open Championship—and by a self-professed "professional golfer". Subsequently, he gained significant media attention, being referred to as "the world's worst golfer". Following the 1976 Open, the rules were changed to prevent Flitcroft from attempting to enter again.
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If you want to rile Bill Drummond, you call him a hoaxer. 'I knew it was real,' a long-time friend and associate of his group The KLF tells me, 'because afterwards, Jimmy and Bill looked so harrowed and haunted. And to be honest, they've never really been the same since. A 2004 listener poll by BBC Radio 6 Music saw The KLF/K Foundation placed second after The Who in a list of "rock excesses".
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Shehroze Chaudhry, also known as Abu Huzaifa the Canadian, is a self-described member of the Islamic State terrorist group and alleged hoaxer. He claimed that he joined ISIS in 2014 after emptying his bank account and visiting Syria. An ongoing criminal case against 25 year old Shehroze Chaudhry alleges his involvement with ISIS was a hoax. His real name is unknown to the public and he agreed to speak to Canada's CBC News on condition that it would not be revealed.
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Dreadnought 1906–1908 From 1907–1911, Dreadnought served as flagship of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet.Roberts, pp. 18–20 In 1910, she attracted the attention of notorious hoaxer Horace de Vere Cole, who persuaded the Royal Navy to arrange for a party of Abyssinian royals to be given a tour of a ship. In reality, the "Abyssinian royals" were some of Cole's friends in blackface and disguise, including a young Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury Group friends; it became known as the Dreadnought hoax.
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No stranger to controversy, he caused a minor uproar by claiming that Egypt's head of antiquities, Dr. Ala Shaheen, announced that the Pyramids in Giza contained alien technology, Shaheen was forced to publish a formal refutation of this claim. In 2012, Cohen released what was claimed to be video footage of a woolly mammoth that had survived to modern times and was alive in Siberia. This story immediately created a sensation across the Internet. The footage was soon discovered to be hoaxed and Cohen apologized and announced he had been fooled by the hoaxer.
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Max Harris with Angry Penguins artist Joy Hester On 17 June, the Adelaide Daily Mail raised the possibility that Harris was the hoaxed rather than the hoaxer. Alarmed, Harris hired a private detective to establish whether Ern and Ethel Malley existed or had ever done so. But by now, the Australian national press was on the trail. The next week, the Sydney Sunday Sun, which had been conducting some investigative reporting, ran a front-page story alleging that the Ern Malley poems had in fact been written by McAuley and Stewart.
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A major theme of the novel is the ambiguity of reality, as the reader must wrestle with the question of whether the man claiming to be Bob McCorkle is a maniac with an identity delusion, a hoaxer's hoaxer, a coincidence, or a phantasm called into being by his creator. As a discussion of and commentary on modern poetry, particularly Australian poetry, the novel makes many references to Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Walt Whitman, who can be seen to have had an influence on Carey.
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Plot: The story revolves around finding a long-lost document in the Mar Saba Monastery that is potentially embarrassing to Christianity. The document is later exposed as the work of a hoaxer. The hero is a British policeman in the Palestine mandate and his born- again American assistant.Reeva Spector Simon Spies and Holy Wars: The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction The villain of the story is a close-shaven German archaeologist who leads a band of Arab "Hooded Ones," including the cowardly "Abid of the Scar," who stabs a girl in the back.
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One of the earliest such sightings occurred shortly after the murder, but it turned out to be British politician John Stonehouse who had attempted to fake his own death. The police travelled to France in June the following year to hunt another lead, to no avail. A sighting in Colombia turned out to be an American businessman. John Miller was a bounty hunter who kidnapped fugitive train robber Ronnie Biggs, and he claimed to have captured the earl in 1982, but he was later exposed by the News of the World as a hoaxer.
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Rattiner hosted a weekly radio show, The Hamptons Report, on WQXR for six years during the 1990s. Rattiner writes more than 300 articles a year on topics including science, humor, sports, world affairs, architecture, history, and scandal. In 1975, Time published a feature story about him entitled "Hoaxer of the Hamptons," in which it covered his penchant for creating East End myths and legends. In 1969 he wrote an article which resulted in demonstrations that saved the Montauk Lighthouse from being torn down by the United States Coast Guard as part of its belt-tightening program, a story that is featured at montauklighthouse.com.
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Craig A. Evans, for instance, came to think that "the Clementine letter and the quotations of Secret Mark embedded within it constitute a modern hoax, and Morton Smith almost certainly is the hoaxer." The Morton Salt factory in Rittman, Ohio. Yet these theories by Carlson have, in their own turn, been challenged by subsequent scholarly research, especially by Scott G. Brown in numerous articles. Brown writes that Carlson's Morton Salt Company clue "is one long sequence of mistakes" and that "the letter nowhere refers to salt being mixed with anything" – only "the true things" are mixed.
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One of the most talked-about incidents in Donahues history came on January 21, 1985, soon after the show moved to New York. On this day's program, seven members of the audience appeared to faint during the broadcast, which was seen live in New York. Donahue, fearing the fainting was caused by both anxiety at being on television and an overheated studio, eventually cleared the studio of audience members and then resumed the show. It turned out the fainting "spell" was cooked up by media hoaxer Alan Abel in what Abel said was a protest against what he termed as poor-quality television.
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These places, along with hospitals and other vital facilities, are believed to have some kind of immunity to the plague. Saved by an apparent episode of possession of the jury in the trial, he is instead exiled from his community with a letter "H", for "Hoaxer", branded on his forehead. He encounters a cult who use pain to ward off the possession. The members believe that the "flame spirits" cannot abide pain, but a young woman tells Chandler that she is sure the possessors are other human beings, and that one of them is a man she rejected.
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His injury was estimated to rule him out for eight weeks, with possibilities of being out for the rest of the year. After admitting to a telephone hoaxer, who claimed to be a football agent, that he was only at Rangers for the money and would leave if an alternative offer was made, suitable for the club as well, he was suspended by the club. He did not appear in training or play for the club again after that incident. During his suspension, Sandaza feared his Rangers career might be over as he suspected that club owner Charles Green wished to sell him.
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In the early-to- mid 1950s USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt was the head of Project Blue Book, the Air Force group assigned to investigate UFO reports. In 1953 Captain Ruppelt decided to investigate Adamski's UFO claims. He traveled to California's Palomar Mountain and, dressed in civilian attire to avoid attracting attention, attended one of Adamski's lectures before a large crowd at his Palomar Gardens Cafe. Ruppelt concluded that Adamski was a talented con artist whose UFO stories were designed to make money from his gullible followers and listeners, and he compared Adamski to the famed hoaxer, carnival, and circus showman PT Barnum.
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Paul Freeman (August 10, 1943 – April 2, 2003) was an American Bigfoot hunter who claimed to have discovered Bigfoot tracks showing dermal ridges. The plaster casts Freeman subsequently made were convincing enough to be considered critical pieces of evidence by anthropologists Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University and Grover Krantz of Washington State University, who put considerable time and resources into studying them. Others, like René Dahinden and Bob Titmus thought Freeman was simply a hoaxer seeking attention. On June 10, 1982, Freeman reportedly sighted a Bigfoot near Walla Walla, Washington, which he described as being nearly 8 ft (2.4 m) tall and covered in reddish-brown body hair.
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The Coolgardie Miner was launched by Billy Clare with help from Murphy, who contributed a weekly gossip column using the pen-name "Dryblower", a name which Murphy used for the rest of his life. Murphy travelled north-east of Coolgardie to I.O.U (Bulong) and with two fellow prospectors, found a rich source of gold. With one of the other prospectors, Murphy travelled to London to float the 'Esmerelda' goldmine, but it slumped and he returned home. Soon afterwards he returned to England, writing for financial and social papers; he also helped to expose the hoaxer Louis de Rougemont before conducting him on a lecture tour.
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At the time, police mistakenly believed that the Preston murder was not public knowledge. The hoaxer case was re-opened in 2005, and DNA taken from envelopes was entered into the national database. On 20 October 2005, John Samuel Humble, an unemployed alcoholic and long-time resident of the Ford Estate in Sunderland – a few miles from Castletown – was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice for sending the hoax letters and tape. Humble, whose DNA had been taken following a drunk and disorderly offence in 2001, was remanded in custody and on 21 March 2006 was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison.
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On 17 June 1979, Humble sent a cassette to Assistant Chief Constable Oldfield, where he introduced himself only under the name "Jack" and claimed responsibility for the Ripper murders to that point. The recording on a cassette tape ended with a segment from the 1978 single "Thank You for Being a Friend" by Andrew Gold. George Oldfield and other senior officers were informed by the FBI that the creator of the tape was a blatant hoaxer. The US profiling expert Robert Ressler indicated, in his co-written book, Whoever Fights Monsters, that he contacted them to inform them immediately after he heard the recording.
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The Theatrical Licensing Act, however, put an end to the anti-ministry satires, and it all but entirely shut down the theatre. From 1741 to 1747, Charles Macklin, Cibber, Samuel Foote, and others sometimes produced plays there either by use of a temporary licence or by subterfuge; one advertisement runs, "At Cibber's Academy in the Haymarket, will be a Concert, after which, will be exhibited (gratis) a Rehearsal, in the form of a Play, called Romeo and Juliet." In 1749 a hoaxer billed as The Bottle Conjuror was advertised to appear at the theatre. The conjuror's publicity claimed that, while on stage, he would place his body inside an empty wine bottle, in full view of the audience.
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On 8 December 2015, Wired wrote that Craig Steven Wright, an Australian academic, "either invented bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did". Craig Wright took down his Twitter account and neither he nor his ex-wife responded to press inquiries. The same day, Gizmodo published a story with evidence supposedly obtained by a hacker who broke into Wright's email accounts, claiming that Satoshi Nakamoto was a joint pseudonym for Craig Steven Wright and computer forensics analyst David Kleiman, who died in 2013. Wright's claim was supported by Jon Matonis (former director of the Bitcoin Foundation) and bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen as well as cryptographer Ian Grigg.
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Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield was criticised for being too focused on a hoax confessional tapeSerial Murderers pp. 86–87 that seemed to indicate a perpetrator with a Wearside background, and for ignoring advice from survivors of Sutcliffe's attacks, and several eminent specialists including the FBI, plus dialect analysts such as Stanley Ellis and Jack Windsor Lewis,Serial Murderers p. 88 whom he had also consulted throughout the manhunt, that "Wearside Jack" was a blatant hoaxer. The investigation used it as a point of elimination rather than a line of enquiry and allowed Sutcliffe to avoid scrutiny, as he did not fit the profile of the sender of the tape or letters.
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In 1874, people in New York, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere in the United States would start a conversation with "Have you seen Tom Collins?" After the listener predictably reacts by explaining that they did not know a Tom Collins, the speaker would assert that Tom Collins was talking about the listener to others and that Tom Collins was "just around the corner", "in a [local] bar," or somewhere else near. The conversation about the nonexistent Tom Collins was a proven hoax of exposure. In The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, as it became known, the speaker would encourage the listener to act foolishly by reacting to patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality.
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A few weeks after being played the recording, the voice experts began to try to persuade the police that the tape was created by a hoaxer, but were not listened to. Interviewed by Joan Smith for The Sunday Times in 1980, Olive Smelt, a victim of Sutcliffe who survived his 1975 attack in Halifax, was angry that the police had ignored her insistence that the perpetrator was a local man. Other survivors' evidence, photofits which were close to Sutcliffe's appearance, were also rejected. A confidential police document issued in September 1979 by the West Yorkshire Police murder incident room instructed detectives to disregard from their inquiries any suspect without a North-East accent.
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After the broadcast Larue exposed the claims as a hoax — and himself as an advisor to the hoaxer — in an interview with Time magazine. Following the exposure, Sun International Pictures argued that it was a secular humanist plot to discredit Jammal. Sun issued a press release which complained that it was "sad and unfortunate that Dr. Larue, a distinguished USC professor, would victimize Mr. Jammal and his family to execute a third-party hoax in which he was the primary benefactor." John Morris of the Institute for Creation Research pointed out that he had interviewed Jammal back in 1986, and that it was unreasonable to believe a hoax would have been carried out for that long.
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According to Theresa Heyd, author of Email Hoaxes: Form, Function, Genre Ecology, the Mydek hoax letter had the three classic elements scholars recognize in a sympathy hoax letter: the "hook", the "threat", and the "request". Heyd points out that the name "Jessica Mydek", when read aloud, is a "rude onomastic pun"—another marker of hoax letters. Heyd asserts that the Mydek letter is the first instance of an email hoax to request those forwarding it to also forward a copy to a specific email address—enabling the hoaxer to engage in email address harvesting of the contacts of those who fall for the hoax. This hoax was also used as an example of a typical cancer victim hoax in several computer security textbooks.
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The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Kenneth Newman, told reporters that groups of Trotskyists and anarchists had orchestrated the violence, a theme picked up by the Daily Telegraph and others. Falling for a story from media hoaxer Rocky Ryan, the Daily Express reported on 8 October 1985 that a "Moscow-trained hit squad gave orders as mob hacked PC Blakelock to death", alleging that "crazed left-wing extremists" trained in Moscow and Libya had coordinated the riots. There was also internal pressure on detectives from the rank and file, who saw their superior officers as sharing the blame for Blakelock's death. The Police Federation's journal, Police, argued that senior officers had pursued a policy at Broadwater Farm of avoiding confrontation at all costs, and that "community policing" had led to compromises with criminals, rather than a focus on upholding the law.
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The anti-Semitic Noontide Press distributed Pawns in the Game for > many years. "Dances with Devils: Satan, the Devil, and the Antichrist, > Freemasons Jews and the Forged Protocols Variations on Conspiracist Themes," > The Website of the Political Associates, same opinion in Pierre-André > Taguieff, op. cit. Carr's works were influenced by the writings of Nesta Webster and the French hoaxer Léo Taxil (see Taxil hoax). He also referred to the theories of Augustin Barruel and John Robison, who both explained the French Revolution as a plot by Freemasonry and linked to the German Illuminati of Adam Weishaupt, who is frequently associated to the conspiracy theory of the New World Order. "William Guy Carr repeats the lies," Pawns in the Game reviewed by the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and History of Conspiracy Theory 101.
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" Bill Murphy, for Relix, notes that "for the first third of the album, [LaLonde] and [Lane] just seem to be warming up", but that the overall album is "as accessible as it is willfully in-your-face, this is vintage Primus." David Fricke's review for Rolling Stone sees him describe Green Naugahyde as "more a series of creepy pranks than a set of tunes", but notes that the band themselves are "a tight knotty rhythm team". The Skinny's David Bowes describes the album as "a surprisingly consistent and rewarding listen", noting that "there's little here that wouldn’t work in the context of some freakish nightmare concoted by celebrated hoaxer P.T. Barnum." Christopher R. Weingarten, for Spin, describes the album as "all rubbery... missing practically everything that made them unlikely belles of the Headbangers Ball: the maddening 11/4 prog mutations, the heavy-metal muscle, the dissonant oddball skronk.
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The Guardian noted that the Crown Office had made similar points in an official statement and argued that they had done so "in apparent co- ordination" with the US embassy. The Crown Office refused to comment on the specific allegations in the film because of the pending trial of two Libyan men, but noted "that the criminal charges in this case were brought on the basis of corroborated evidence supporting these charges and therefore inevitably conflicting with much of what is in the film." The Crown Office did publicly accuse one key witness in the film, Oswald LeWinter, of being a "notorious hoaxer" and another, Juval Aviv, of being a mere El Al airline security guard - not a member of the intelligence community as he claimed. Additionally, the FBI investigated the film at the request of the Scottish police and argued that LeWinter was "a major fabricator" and that overall the film was a sham.
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Coleman has also been critical of some of the mainstream coverage of Anonymous. In Is it a Crime? The Transgressive Politics of Hacking in Anonymous (with Michael Ralph), Coleman responds to an article on the group by Joseph Menn in the Financial Times noting: Our Weirdness Is Free: The logic of Anonymous — online army, agent of chaos, and seeker of justice, Triple Canopy 2012 January, is Coleman's first major piece of length on the group and draws from a range of observations of those she describes as "everything and nothing at once". Even Coleman admits she does not fully understand Anonymous, she told the BBC: Coleman's multi-year ethnographic research on Anonymous culminated in the publication of Hacker Hoaxer Whistleblower Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. Awarded the American Anthropological Association's Diane Forsythe prize and described by Alan Moore, the co-author of V for Vendetta as “brilliantly lucid”, the book charts the history, rise, and impact of the Anonymous movement.
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Duncan Rennie (born Kirkcaldy, 6 January 1977) is a Scottish film, television, and stage actor. A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, Rennie worked extensively in Scottish film and television in production before becoming an actor. Rennie has featured in several Scottish films, including Bulb (BAFTA New Talent 2008, Innovation Winner), Dach (BAFTA Scotland 2007 nominee, 2008 SSOS Technical Excellence Winner), A Map with Gaps (Grand Jury Best Short Documentary at Slamdance Film Festival 2007), Grace, The Eskimo and The Wolf and Cotopaxi (BAFTA Scotland 2005 Best Film nominee). He also had cameo performances in Sixteen Years of Alcohol, Hallam Foe and The New Ten Commandments. Rennie was also in director Norman Stone’s film, The King James Bible, playing Guy Fawkes. Rennie's television work includes the lead in Science Scams: The Meinertzhagen Collection and Wearside Jack: The Ripper Hoaxer for Channel 4 and ‘'BBC Timewatch The Last Duel'’ and ‘'History of Scotland'’ for the BBC. Rennie portrayed Robert the Bruce in Aisling’s Children at ‘'The Gathering: Homecoming 2009.’' This work was performed to an international audience in Edinburgh Castle.
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