HOAX

Elaborate April fool

• Balloon Boy, for one

• Paul is dead, e.g.

• The War of the Worlds broadcast, notably

• 1938 The War of the Worlds broadcast, for one

• April 1 event

• Art forgery, maybe

• Attempted deception

• Bamboozle

• Bamboozlement

• Big put-on

• Bigfoot photo, e.g.

• Campus prank, often

• Canard

• Chain letters, usually

• Con

• Cottingley Fairies, for one

• Crop circles, e.g.

• Debunked thing

• Debunker's target

• Deceitful act

• Deceitful device

• Deception

• Deceptive act

• Dupery

• Elaborate fake

• Elaborate falsehood

• Elaborate fraud

• Elaborate lie

• Elaborate ruse

• England's crop circles, notably

• Fabricated story

• Fake

• False claim

• Fast one

• Flimflam

• Forged artifact, e.g.

• Fraud

• Fraudulence

• Fraudulent claim

• Fraudulent event

• Fraudulent undertaking

• Hoodwink

• Hornswoggle

• Imposture

• It's a trick

• It's not for real

• It's perpetrated by a prankster

• Kind of practical joke

• Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address e-mail, e.g.

• Leg-pull

• Like a famous Welles radio broadcast

• Like an urban legend

• Major prank

• Many a P.T. Barnum attraction

• Many an urban legend

• Mare's nest

• Martian invasion report, e.g.

• Milli Vanilli, famously

• Phony discovery, perhaps

• Phony happening

• Piltdown Man, e.g.

• Piltdown Man, for one

• Piltdown man, notably

• Piltdown man, say

• Plan to fool

• Practical joke

• Prankster's project

• Public put-on

• Publicity stunt

• Put-on

• Scam

• Sham or scam

• Snow job

• Something intended to deceive

• Spam content, often

• Spoof

• Sting, for instance

• Subject of a forwarded e-mail, often

• The 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds was one

• The Cardiff Giant, e.g.

• The Cardiff Giant, for one

• The Hitler Diaries, e.g.

• The Loch Ness monster, probably

• The Pacific Northwest tree octopus, e.g.

• The performances of Milli Vanilli, essentially

• The Piltdown man, e.g.

• The Piltdown man, for one

• The Piltdown man, notably

• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, e.g.

• Trick

• Trickster's deception

• UFO photo, perhaps

• Welles' Martian invasion broadcast, e.g.

• Something intended to deceive

• Deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage