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Imposture and Deception

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Things that were not as they seemed

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Imposture and Fraud
Impostor
Alan Conway
Alexander the Paphlagonian
Ali Dia
Antoinette Millard
Barry Bremen
Bata LoBagola
Cassie Chadwick
Charles Stopford
Christophe Rocancourt
Enric Marco
Frank Abagnale
Frank Hopkins
Frederick Emerson Peters
Gerald Barnbaum
Gert Postel
Gregor MacGregor
James of Jülich
James Reavis
Joshua Gardner
Kaz Demille-Jacobsen
Laurel Rose Willson
Lisa Jane Phillips
Marcius Agrippa
Maurice Flitcroft
Oscar Hartzell
Otto Witte
Pierre Picaud
Robert Hendy-Freegard
Tichborne Case
Wilhelm Voigt
Imposture and other crime
Jean-Claude Romand
Academic impostors
Marvin Hewitt
Elias Alsabti
James Hogue
Ethnic Imposture
Asa Earl Carter
Binjamin Wilkomirski
Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance
Grey Owl
Helen Darville
Jamake Highwater
Red Thunder Cloud
Exotic impostors
George Psalmanazar
Princess Caraboo
False Royal and Noble Pretenders
Alexis Brimeyer
Anna Gyllander
Eugenio Lascorz
False Margaret
Harry Domela
Karl Wilhelm Naundorff
Lambert Simnel
Lavinia Ryves
Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança
Michel Roger Lafosse
Olivia Serres
Perkin Warbeck
Pierre Plantard
Pseudo-Nero
Sobieski Stuarts
Romanov impostors
Alexei Tammet-Romanov
Anatoly Ionov (Romanov claimant)
Anna Anderson
Eleonora Kruger
Eugenia Smith
False Dmitriy I
False Dmitry II
False Dmitry III
Granny Alina
Maddess Aiort
Marga Boodts
Michael Alexander Obolensky
Michael Goleniewski
Michael Romanoff
Michelle Anches
Nadezhda Vasilyeva
Natalya Bilikhodze
Military imposture
Alan Mcilwraith
Chenjerai Hunzvi
George Dupre
James Shortt
Jesse Macbeth
Joseph A. Cafasso
Lindsay pamphlet scandal
Micah Wright
Paul H. Lemmen
Percy Toplis
Philip Sessarego
Serial impostors
Ferdinand Waldo Demara
Stanley Clifford Weyman
Made-up past
Adelaide Abankwah
Herman Rosenblat
James Frey
Louis de Rougemont
Margaret Seltzer
Maria Monk
Michael Pelligrino
Norma Khouri
Fraudulent memoirs
Fake memoirs
Angel at the Fence
Go Ask Alice
Hitler Diaries
Memoirs Of Mr. Hempher, The British Spy To The Middle East
Michelle Remembers
Mussolini diaries
Misha Defonseca
Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years
Con artists
Arthur Furguson
Astafy Dolgopolov
Barbara Erni
Canada Bill Jones
Charles Miller (gambler)
Charles Redheffer
Clark Rockefeller
David Lamar
Ed "Big Ed" Burns
George C. Parker
Helga de la Brache
Henri Lemoine
Henry More Smith
Hungry Joe
J. Bam Morrison
Joseph Weil
Lou Blonger
Matthew Cox
Nicky Arnstein
Peter Foster
Philip Arnold
Philip Nolan
Soapy Smith
Thérèse Humbert
Tom O'Brien (swindler)
Victor Lustig
William Thompson (confidence man)
Confidence games
Confidence trick
List of confidence tricks
Airplane game
Badger game
Bait and switch
Capping stunt
Clip joint
Clothing scam companies
Coin rolling scams
Cold reading
Embarrassing cheque
Green Goods Scam
Hot reading
Hustling
Kubus scheme
Lebanese loop
Matrix scheme
Patent safe
Pig in a poke
Pigeon drop
Salting (confidence trick)
Shell game
Slavery reparations scam
Strip search prank call scam
Thai gem scam
Thai tailor scam
Thai zig zag scam
The switch (con)
Three-card Monte
Welsh Thrasher faith scam
White van speaker scam
Work-at-home scheme
Warehouse bank
Con cases
Académie Parisienne des Inventeurs
Affair of the Diamond Necklace
Foundation for New Era Philanthropy
Gandhi Memorial International Foundation
Greater Ministries International
HeightMax
Lyonya Golubkov
Miracle Cars scam
Fake inventions
AD-X2
Gasoline pill
Hanxin
Hongcheng Magic Liquid
Laundry ball
Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass
Unclear but suspicious cases
Bhawal case
Loreta Janeta Velazquez
Vinland map
Other
Arthur Paul Pedrick
Brianna Stewart
Clemens (impostor)
Cyril Burt
David Hampton
Elizabeth Canning
Frédéric Bourdin
Frederick Rolfe
James Hydrick
Joice Heth
Karoly Hajdu
Lobsang Rampa
Lord Gordon-Gordon
Martín Garatuza
Martin Guerre
Mary Carleton
Melvin Dummar
Mike Warnke
Peter Popoff
Robert Matthews (religious impostor)
Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet -
Steve Brodie (bridge jumper)
Titus Oates
William Fuller (imposter)
Hoaxes
Hoax
List of hoaxes
2005 Indonesian embassy bioterrorism hoax
2009 LaGuardia Airport bomb scare
54 Berners Street prank
Anthrax hoaxes
Cardiff Giant
Chaos cloud
Cock Lane ghost
Cottingley Fairies
Death hoax
Diamond hoax of 1872
Dihydrogen monoxide hoax
Dreadnought hoax
Drummer of Tedworth
Encaprin
Flemish Secession hoax
Fortsas hoax
Giant penguin hoax
Glock 3
Great Oil Sniffer Hoax
Great Rose Bowl Hoax
Histoire de l'Inquisition en France
Hunting For Bambi
ID Sniper rifle
Iraqi block cipher
Isaac Bickerstaff
Ken Kesey
Mars hoax
Mephisto (automaton)
Monkeyman superhero hoax
Nullarbor Nymph
Penis captivus
Sokal affair
The Speech of Polly Baker
Forgeries
Forgery
Counterfeit
Counterfeit consumer goods
Counterfeit watch
False document
Identity document forgery
Specific forgeries
Abel Fosdyk papers
De Situ Britanniae
Horn Papers
Niger uranium forgeries
Archeological forgery
Archaeological forgery
Bat Creek inscription
Davenport Tablets
Drake's Plate of Brass
Etruscan terracotta warriors
Grave Creek Stone
Ica stones
James Ossuary
Michigan relics
Persian Princess
Archeological forgers
Brigido Lara
Moses Shapira
Reiner Protsch -
Shinichi Fujimura
Art forgery
Art forgery
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker
David Stein (art forger)
Elmyr de Hory
Ely Sakhai
Eric Hebborn
Fernand Legros
Franz Tieze
Geert Jan Jansen
Guy Hain
Henry Woodhouse
Jean de Sperati
Jean-Pierre Schecroun
John Drewe
John Myatt
Joseph Cosey
Lothar Malskat
Louis Enricht
Otto Wacker
Robert Spring
Vrain Denis-Lucas
William Blundell
Religious forgery
Donation of Constantine
Pseudo-Isidore
Publius Lentulus
Literary deception and hoaxes
Literary forgery
Hoax letter writers
The Emily Chesley Reading Circle
Bibliography of Carlos Castaneda
A Million Little Pieces
An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin
Ossian
Literary forgers
Thomas Chatterton
Clifford Irving
William Henry Ireland
Ireland Shakespeare forgeries
Literary hoaxes and forgeries
Atlanta Nights
I, Libertine
Naked Came the Stranger
Brain-Washing (book)
Clotilde de Surville
Fei hua qing han
Forbidden Love (novel)
François Nodot
Iolo Morganwg
James Macpherson
Libelle (literary genre)
Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and of Zelená Hora
My Sister and I
Nasdijj
Oera Linda
Spectra (book)
Supplements to the Satyricon
The Education of Little Tree
Nonexistent writers
Andreas Karavis
Araki Yasusada
David Manning (fictitious writer)
Ern Malley
JT LeRoy
Wanda Koolmatrie
Scientific misconduct and deception
Scientific misconduct
Pranks
Prank call
The Masked Avengers' prank on Sarah Palin
Pranksters
Alan Abel
Barry Larkin (Olympics)
Brian G. Hughes
Charles Vance Millar
Dick Tuck
Harry Reichenbach
Horace de Vere Cole
Hugh Troy
Igor Vamos
Jacques Servin
Jake Bronstein
Joey Skaggs
Karl Power
Kevin Conde
Lord Bloody Wog Rolo
Lucas Trerice
Mark Boslough
Tristan Tzara
Pranksters in the media
Allen Funt
Ashton Kutcher
Dan Ilic
Jeremy Beadle
Jim Moran (publicist)
John Safran
Jonathan Routh
Media hoaxes and deceptions
Alexis Debat
Alleged Ouze Merham interview of Ariel Sharon
Bjørn Benkow
Dark Side of the Moon (documentary)
Fuckart & Pimp
Grunge speak
Harcourt interpolation
Kodee Kennings
Phesheya Dube
Ponsonby Britt
Religious hoaxes
Elizabeth Hope
Nonexistent people
Abraham ben Abraham
Alan Smithee
Allegra Coleman
Andrew Carlssin
Anthony Godby Johnson
Badge man
Bernard Weiss
Bridey Murphy
Cedric Allingham
Cumma
David Agnew
David Weiss (fictional person)
Eddie Burrup
Edward Owens
Ernst Bettler
Franz Bibfeldt
George P. Burdell
George Spelvin
Godescealc
H. Rochester Sneath
Harry Q. Bovik
Ivan Renko
J. Fortescue
Jakob Maria Mierscheid
Jára Cimrman
John Adam (hoax)
John the Presbyter
José Gaspar
Josef Papp
Joseph Crabtree (polymath)
Josiah S. Carberry
Kasongo Ilunga
Kaycee Nicole
Kazuo Uzuki
Lou Proctor
Lucian Yahoo Dragoman
Lucy Brewer
Lucy Ramirez
Martin Eisenstadt
Masal Bugduv
Miranda Grosvenor
N. Senada
Naomi V. Jelish
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960
Nguyen Toon
Nicolas Bourbaki
O. Uplavici
P. D. Q. Bach
Paul DeFanti
Piotr Zak
Pope Joan
Pope John XX
Pseudo-Geber
Rabbi Emmanuel Rabinovich
Sidd Finch
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
Non-existent animals
Fatu-liva
Fiji mermaid
Fur-bearing trout
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer
Jake the Alligator Man
Kasai rex
Kingstie
Non-existent places
Fictitious entry
Trap street
Agloe, New York
Cape Cod Canal Tunnel
Dominion of Melchizedek
Goblu and Beatosu
Maguire University
Mount Sapo
Parkgate, County Antrim
Plainfield Teacher's College
Other nonexistent subjects
43-Man Squamish
Apopudobalia
Esquivalience
Hornets Attack Victor Mature
Lustfaust
Metallic Metals Act
Dord
Potemkin village
Prank and hoax-related organizations
Disumbrationism
Garden Gnome Liberationists
Masked Avengers
Potato Bag gang
Pranknet
The Residents
The Yes Men
Veterans of Future Wars
Wikipedia-related deception
Essjay controversy
Henryk Batuta hoax
Legitimate pretense
Impersonator
Look-alike
Celebrity impersonator
Elvis impersonator
Miscellaneous
Bruno Bettelheim
Cecil Jacobson
Cough CPR
David Rorvik
F for Fake
John Ketcham (The Amityville Horror)
Lumber Cartel
Michael John Hamdani
Money mule
Palisade, Nevada
Pierre Marteau
Polybius (game)
Priory of Sion
Scams in intellectual property
Sucker list