0 a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick: --
1 to deceive, especially by playing a trick on someone --
3 to deceive someone, especially by playing a trick on them: --
4 a trick or something else that is intended to deceive someone: --
We all need to be vigilant during the strike, but it is also imperative that our cover is not stretched by hoax calls.
This seems to me to be one gigantic public relations hoax.
Measures are being taken to reduce the number of hoax calls in a joint initiative between emergency services and telephone operating companies.
My points were entirely concerned with fraudulent and hoax orders, and the problem of trying to determine whether the goods had been ordered.
This strategy will address ways of reducing accidents, deaths resulting from accidents, false alarms and hoax calls.
There are well-established arrangements with the news media for the discussion of hoaxes, false alarms, and the handling of public safety information.
These hoaxes served different participants in different ways, yet all those who did the fooling could expect evil consequences from those who were fooled, were the truth ever to emerge.
But it was a hoax, and by no means the last of its kind.
