The phrase "a hoax of" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly; the correct expression would be "a hoax about" or "a hoax involving."
Example: "The article was revealed to be a hoax about the supposed discovery of a new species."
Alternatives: "a deception regarding" or "a trick involving."
It was a hoax, of course, but nobody ever quite figured out how it worked.
A hoax is a hoax, of course, of course … or is it?
Even if you'd been navigating horrible traffic, you'd probably have realized by this point that Dr. Sadler was a hoax of some kind.
Welles begins with a flurry of vignettes on the subject of hoaxes, drawing on footage shot by François Reichenbach: we see the debonair art forger Elmyr de Hory; his wily biographer, Clifford Irving, who proceeds to launch a hoax of his own, in the form of the diaries of Howard Hughes; and Welles himself, recalling the "War of the Worlds" uproar.
Update: we've received information that suggests this was a hoax of some kind, and that Seeqpod was not in fact acquired by Bloson but rather by Intertrust, a joint venture that includes involvement from Sony and Philips.
"A hoax of this type where you are misleading people is actually a semi-suicidal form of using social media," Thomas Crampton, global managing director from the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather told the BBC.
"If the general public wants to see a bunch of hoaxes made up, then let it be included in something like a hoax-of-the-week, and have fun with it.
In actuality, the so-called mermaid was a hoax, consisting of the head of a monkey attached to the body of a fish.
In 1844, Edgar Allan Poe enthralled readers of The New York Sun with his gripping account -- a complete hoax -- of a balloon journey across the Atlantic Ocean.
The offers, which Toks valued at $2 trillion, were quickly declared a hoax by most of the companies.
Gigi Lee was named in a "hoax" announcement of the birth on the singer's website last week.
