Sentence examples for hoax someone from inspiring English sources

I'm hoping against hope that this image is some clever hoax someone whipped up to turn heads before the official unveiling, but we'll soon see if it's real or not as we'll be on the ground in New York for the event tomorrow night.

"As soon as we get a 406 alert, we know it's either a hoax or someone is really in distress," said Lt. Col. Scott Morgan, commander of the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center, which oversees land-based rescue operations.

Notre Dame said in a statement that Te'o was the victim of "what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia".

On Dec. 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te'o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia.

Exposing a hoax can cause someone already mentally imbalanced to become dangerous.

Mr. Bellantoni said the hoax was done by someone with a fair amount of archaeological knowledge and access to some materials used by professionals.

He offered different explanations for why he decided to write it, but eventually pointed journalists toward the epigraph to his book "Hoax," a quote from someone named Jean le Malchanceux.

People (including Martha Kenney, who first shared the ad) started speculating that it may have been hoax, perhaps posted by someone who wanted to make Airbnb look bad.

If you find the email is a hoax and comes from someone you know personally, immediately reply to the original sender to let him or her know.

There were also new reports about Manti Te'o, the football player caught up in someone's online hoax, and about the usual assortment of Wall Street types said to have played fast and loose with other people's money.

A New Testament scholar, he is often tapped to sort out hoax from authentic evidence when someone announces a new "discovery" from the early Christian era.