‘I now have reason to believe that in unraveling a hoax I was hoaxed myself.’
‘James also investigated the case and found that Tina was hoaxing her adoptive parents and using the media attention to assist her quest to find her biological parents.’
‘No amount of fossil data will induce them to admit they are hoaxing their readers.’
‘It's just too cruel, they say - like hoaxing someone into believing they've won the lottery.’
‘I know that Ern Malley was not a real person, but a personality invented in order to hoax me.’
‘His motive for hoaxing the world was clearly not financial, for he turned down opportunities of making a vast fortune from his story.’
‘Then he turned to hoaxing the gullible, those who wanted to believe in ‘miracle cures’.’
‘When it came to hoaxing the general public, Barnum was very clever in the way he positioned himself.’
‘In fact, in 1999 he published a revised edition of the book which argued that not only was her work unreliable due to bad research, but that the poor woman had actually been hoaxed by a number of the islanders she spent time with.’
‘As a rule I don't do anything about pleas such as this because I have been hoaxed in the past, but in this case I made an exception and forwarded the email to my address book list.’
‘It took a few hours, and the worldwide dissemination of the story, before the they realized it had been hoaxed.’
‘The newspaper later confirmed that it had been hoaxed and printed a front-page apology, with a pledge to donate money to charity.’
‘A few years ago, of course, Frances, one of the girls, admitted that they had hoaxed everybody.’
‘When I ask if he has ever run into any of the celebrities he has hoaxed, his initial response is to deconstruct the question.’
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