Trading around Fed announcements can be hazardous, with fake out moves and harsh reversals.
Unsurprisingly, drug companies around the world are fearful that their brand will be shunned if news of a fake gets out.
Let's assume for a moment that Crispin used buzz marketing to fake me out and get my attention, as I'm convinced they did.
DreamWorks SKG irked journalists this year when it sent out fake letters to tout its flick The Love Letter.
One fake Twitter tweeted out false (not to mention mathematically impossible) poll results to mock the Republican party.
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Las Vegas casinos were among the first to use the dots, in an effort to root out fake gambling chips.
Twitter has limited front-end, proactive methods of weeding out fake accounts, because it wants it to be as easy to join as possible.
Barely a year later, after the Stephen Glass fiasco (see "Forbes smokes out fake New Republic story on hackers, " Forbes Digital Tool, May 11), the online distribution of the Starr Report, and the proliferation of serious news outlets on the web, only the most undesirable demographic--the hopelessly uninformed--would dispute the legitimacy and power of online media.
And myriad companies churn out the fake Gillettes and Rolexes sold on street corners.
The video took responsibility for falsely promoting a fake operation, pointing out obvious flaws in the plan.
He trained his reporters in covert tape-recording techniques and would even set up fake companies to carry out stings.
Last year 5, 000 music fans trying to buy tickets for festivals like Reading, Leeds and the V Festival were caught out by fake websites.
Not surprisingly, one organization that gets impersonated a lot in phishing emails is the IRS itself, which last week warned taxpayers to watch out for fake emails.
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Suspicious airline employees, sniffing out a fake, questioned the man.
Before you know it, the check turns out to be fake and your money is gone.
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Even the billowing steam, it turned out, was fake: no one had dared stoke up the pre-war boiler.
The e-mail that Hisayusu Nagata flourished turned out to be fake.
For instance, both YouTube and Twitter have out-sized fake followings of 30% and 37% respectively, which suggests that bots are disproportionately attracted to long-standing Twitter accounts with large followings (such as Mark Cuban and Guy Kawasaki).
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And if we're really organized, we'll get the fake spider webs and put them out.
One of the most malicious types of Malware out there is the Fake Anti-Virus.
But in return, they sent pre-written articles to out local newspaper with fake quotes from me and a group photo.
The private screeners reportedly missed one out of every four fake weapons.
This automation in combination with fake bot accounts that can pump out these messages effectively create a method through which Likes can be bought.
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Spain's El Pais newspaper has apologised after publishing a photo of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez which it said has turned out to be a fake.
The fourth-floor offices of technology incubator Ecompanies in Santa Monica, Calif. were decked out for Halloween with fake cobwebs, faux human limbs and a mini-graveyard of Styrofoam tombstones bearing executives' names.
With any seller, confirm that they have a return policy that would allow you sufficient time to have something authenticated and return it if it turns out to be a fake.
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For instance Bill Gates, who one would assume has no reason to puff up his Twitter status has, according to StatusPeople, 41% fake and 38% inactive users out of his total 8 million followers.
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You learn a new language, and then go out armed with a fake set of personal belongings, an armoury of mild insults (to intrigue your prey) and the support of your buddies - the same guys you'll be reporting back to as soon as the encounter is over.
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