39 Hateful Hoaxes
From Fake Vampire News to YouTube Death Hoaxes:
Meghan Young — Oct 23, 2009 — Pop Culture
With the Balloon Boy still taking flight across all media channels, I’ve decided to compile a cluster of past hateful hoaxes TrendHunter.com has featured. Making headlines or making money, hoaxes will never cease to occur. But with our obsessive need for scandalous news, we are giving, at least some of these deceivers, exactly what they want. Bad publicity is still publicity, right?
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Bigfoot Captured
Scientists to Reveal Bigfoot and DNA (Proof or Hoax?)
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Video of Banksy's Paris Hilton Hoax
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Morbid Candy
The Chocolate Newborn Hoax
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Black Friday Ad Hoaxes
Best Buy, Future Shop, Circuit City Gift Card Email
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Endangered Hair Color Hoaxes
Redheads Going Extinct?
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Fake Vampire News
Twilight Filipino Adaptation is a Hoax
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Hoax Hotelicopters
Faux Flying Hotel Sends Bloggers Who Don't Fact Check Into a Frenzy
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Sexy 'Bluetoothing' Hoax Turns into Casual Dating (Sex?) Frenzy
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$12000 Cash Only Meal?
The Suffolk Kitchen Knish Hoax
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Suggestive Weight Loss Products
Is the Shake Weight Real, or Just a Well-Executed Hoax?
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Hoax Hacks
Skullphone Fakes Digital Billboard Hijack
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Guerrilla Marketing Gone Bad
Boston Hoax Turns Into Million Dollar Mishap
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Deliberate Shortage
The Xbox Shortage Hoax of 2005
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Serero Eiffel Tower Extension (UPDATE)
Le Grande Hoax
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Mega Hoaxes
Biggest Drawing is a Fake
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Viral Hoaxes as Art
Gallery Sells Prints of $999.99 iPhone App
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Fake Memoirs
Herman Rosenblat's Holocaust Love Story Exposed as a Hoax
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Engadget Hoax Drives Apple Stock Down $4 Billion
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Cooking With Cellphones
Popcorn Popping Is Another Hoax
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Cyborg Photography
Is The EyeCamera 4.1 With Wink and Shoot A Hoax?
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Publicity Stunt Fails
Balloon Boy Saga Becomes the Falcon Heene Hoax
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Inked Organs
Surgery to Tattoo Beating Hearts is a Hoax
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Viral Hoaxes
Lost Brazilian Tribe Not Real
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USB Pregnancy Tests
The p-Teq Hoax
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Ancient Prank Texts?
The Voynich Manuscript Could Be The Hoax of the Century
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Infect Your PC
Hundreds Click on Hoax Google Adsense Virus
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Viral Career Hoaxes
"Best Job in the World" is a Fake Job in Alaska
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Get Paid To Lose Weight
Hoax Website Offers $100 Per Pound
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Global Warming A Hoax?
GM's Bob Lutz Talks To Colbert
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UPDATE: Cooking Eggs with Mobile Phones a Hoax
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YouTube For Hoax Debunking
Is Big Brother Watching? Hidden Camera In Digital TV Converter
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Big Brand Hoaxes
BMW Dog Zapper
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Email Hoaxes As Stories
‘Cry for Help: 36 Scam email messages from Africa'
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Virus Gullibility
If Conficker Worm is Not An April Fool's Hoax, 15 Million PCs Could be Inf
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Powdered Celebrity Skin
Famous Stardust (Hoax)
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Viral Newspapers Hoaxes
1.2 Million 'New York Times' Fakes Handed Out
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New Google Engine Predicts Future Searches
gDay MATE (HOAX)
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Giant Public Turkey Stuffing
The 55 Ft Bird Basting Hoax
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