Viewers eventually discovered the videos were a hoax made by the New Zealand actress.
"We're getting better at knowing what is and what isn't a hoax, " he said.
Indeed, the terms of the agreement itself show that the deal is a hoax.
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Sakander Mahmood, 26, from Sheffield, admits sending the right-wing group a hoax message through their website.
The story was a hoax, according to Deadspin, the only outlet that bothered to investigate it.
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Sakander Mahmood, 26, of Firth Park, Sheffield, admitted sending the group a hoax message through its website.
The book's next biggest find, that one of Wittgenstein's last works is a hoax, is wholly surprising.
In the ESPN interview, Te'o said he wasn't fully convinced it was a hoax until Wednesday, Schaap said.
Turns out, my friend had been duped and the posting was a hoax.
He said in subsequent interviews that he was the victim of a hoax.
Phone company Vodaphone and the East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust recently quashed rumours that Ice was a hoax .
Police have now said a bomb alert in north Belfast was a hoax.
And his wife, Evana Roth, called a news conference to say she found emails suggesting the disappearance was a hoax.
He was jailed in 2008 for seven years after leaving a hoax bomb on a bus in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
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And they did after the sports website Deadspin published a piece dismissing the existence of the girlfriend as a hoax.
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There is certainly a chance that this is a hoax, or that Clonaid thinks it has a baby clone but doesn't.
The 2008 offences took the form of a hoax online conversation exchanging images obtained from file-sharing sites, which were then deleted.
Internet activist group Anonymous has said calls for it to attack the website of controversial anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church were a hoax.
And in 1732 he inaugurated his famous Poor Richard's Almanack with a hoax predicting the death of rival almanac publisher Titan Leeds.
Someone has responded to the public appeals - but it turned out to be a hoax caller demanding money from Lupita's parents.
Te'o told ESPN that he wasn't entirely sure he was the victim of a hoax until earlier this week when Tuiasosopo apologized.
It was declared a hoax after a controlled explosion was carried out.
But sightings and evidence of big cats are not always a hoax.
However, it was later established that the device was a hoax.
If the reports are true that it was Manti himself that told the coaches it was a hoax, then several other questions arise.
My sense, from the distance of Washington, is that Pakistanis are slowly coming to the realization that the memo controversy was a hoax.
The sports website Deadspin broke the story in January that Kekua wasn't real, and Te'o subsequently insisted he'd been the victim of a hoax.
The story was based partially on FBI documents that the Times now believes were a hoax, reportedly perpetrated by a con-man currently in prison.
And, yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet -- because climate change is not a hoax.
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