Deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
Else clues• 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 April fool
• 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