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:
However, all these speculations are even more tenuous than those required to investigate the hidden trails of deliberate hoaxes.
Historians can point to many other examples of hoaxes, successful or not.
After cleaning the data for erroneous entries, cancelled calls, hoax calls, etc, 2781 non-urgent emergency calls with a total of 4310 vehicle journeys were analysed.
Drift-message hoaxes could also relate to other maritime explorers.
The similarities indicate a common modus operandi, suggesting that the two reports were hoaxes perpetrated by the same individual.
On closer inspection, it appears to be a rather opaque hoax.
And a rarer category are historical events based on pure pretence, deliberately false at the time : in short, hoaxes.
But it was a hoax, and by no means the last of its kind.
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