And in London, soldiers have dealt with 500 call outs since the strike began, with 108 hoaxes.
They claimed the North Ayrshire men suffered a miscarriage of justice because the packages sent were obviously hoaxes.
Forty years later Franklin owned up to having been Polly, and he eventually admitted to others of his hoaxes.
When it comes to grand hoaxes, there is nothing new under the sun.
Perhaps they were inspired by one of the most famous space-related hoaxes, the so-called Great Moon Hoax of 1835.
Mr Bilboa has now removed the bids which he said were obviously hoaxes.
None other than Fox itself, which unveiled the hoax during a 1998 special called World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed.
Feeding off a mix of millennial angst and residual technophobia, Wobbler is just one of numerous virus hoaxes circulating by e-mail.
The history of art is filled with visual hoaxes, such as Arcimboldo's 17th-century paintings of vegetables arranged to look like human faces.
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The author of Dracula was also the author of the non-fiction book, Famous Imposters, which exposed hoaxes such as witchcraft and magic.
Broadcast outlets, which often repeat stories they read in the paper without doing any fact-checking, are also especially vulnerable to April 1 hoaxes.
As far as the anthrax probe is concerned, Ridge said that the FBI is following significant leads, but thousand of hoaxes have hampered the investigation.
Other Australian firms have fallen victim to hoaxes in recent months.
The figures include hoaxes, 999 calls made with good intent that do not transpire to be emergencies and callouts prompted by faulty equipment in business premises.
As experienced administrators, EVAC members say they are careful not to pass on information about hoaxes which can take as much time to clear up as real viruses.
Detectives initially treated the two parcels as "elaborate hoaxes" designed to cause distress rather than serious injury but further analysis has led to them being reclassified as "viable explosive devices".
The organisation had started to report all bomb hoaxes following reports of a car which had been stopped on the M1 a week or so before the email was received.
In addition to chasing the money trail, uncovering the original source and motives of out-there conspiracies and hoaxes online is always difficult, said David Mikkelson, co-founder of the debunking site Snopes.com.
So why do these celebrity hoaxes keep popping up?
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Thanks to viruses, scams and hoaxes, many government organizations, including taxing authorities, shy away from allowing online access to certain kinds of information such as notices and payments due.
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"You get a broad range from hoaxes, charlatans and self-centered megalomaniacs to extraordinary altruism and everything in the middle, " says George Demetri, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass.
"A lot of outer space hoaxes are really just exercises in wish fulfillment, " says self-proclaimed "hoaxpert" Alex Boese, author of the wide-ranging Museum of Hoaxes: A History of Outrageous Pranks and Deceptions.
Though he enjoyed hoaxes, he would sometimes turn them on himself, once writing, under a pseudonym, a withering review of one of his own works in the New York Review of Books.
The money and fame have inspired hoaxes--a 2.5-pound diving weight was found in a big bass in California--but have also inspired a new band of knights to go in search of angling's holy grail.
Even the wave of sympathy that brought eager shoppers in from north and south of the border in the first Christmas after the blast has not been repeated in subsequent years - partly due to a rash of bomb hoaxes.
Like numerous disasters before, hoaxes and conspiracies have popped up in the chaotic first days after the tragedy, days when people want to jump in with help and support while investigations have barely begun or level of help for victims identified.
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