Matt Harding claimed to have travelled around the world dancing his little dance with people from all nations. It was all an elaborate hoax perpetrated by a viral advertising agency. After one astute watcher pointed out on YouTube that it was all done in Photoshop, Matt has come clean. picked by pocksucket 11 months ago

McAfee was taken in by a well crafted video hoax purportedly showing two hackers taking over control of an office building lighting system and using it to play Space Invaders. Even when the jig was revealed McAfee refused to bend saying “Fake or not, the video confirms that hackers and cybercriminals have got their eyes on SCADA networks.” picked by equinox 6 months ago

Federal judge tentatively acquitted a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who later killed herself. picked by nateebiinature 5 months ago

Ambulance workers in are seething over a "disturbing" hoax phone call this morning.

Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman Andrew Christie said a Cairns woman rang 000 around midnight and screamed that her baby had fallen off the bed and stopped breathing. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

You all saw the pictures of the supposed undiscovered Amazonian tribe. Those shots took the internet by storm. Now we learn that it was an hoax to bring attention to the threat of logging. The tribe has been known for almost 100 years. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

An alien ate my baby! Bat Boy uses sonar to fight terrorists! and other such fake headlines and stories actually have some credible roots. Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain, for instance, are both responsible for a bit of hoax journalism. picked by donteatpoop 2 years ago

Two law enforcement officers killed in a bank bombing last week believed the device was a hoax and were trying to open it when it exploded, according to court documents released on Tuesday. picked by muppet 11 months ago

The mother of Falcon Heene, thought to have been swept away in a giant helium balloon, has admitted the incident was a hoax, according to court documents.

Some appropriate justice would be nice to see now picked by Dontgivethedogchoccy 1 month ago

A Medford woman accused in a cruel Craigslist hoax has admitted the crime was her idea, and charges have been dropped against her husband, according to the Medford Mail Tribune. picked by muppet 1 year ago

Dutch television broadcaster BNN provoked an international uproar this week when it announced plans to air a live TV game show pitting rival kidney patients against one another in pursuit of a donor organ. But when the show ran on Friday, it proved to be a hoax.

Update to this picked by Queenofhearts 2 years ago

The Aqua Teen Hungry Force hoax continues to spread... picked by monkeyman 3 years ago

At least 10 people in northern Indiana have received automated phone calls warning them they may have contracted a venereal disease. The calls purportedly come from the St. Joseph County Health Department, picked by bernardblack 1 year ago

I'm not sure if these guys will end up in jail but they sure turned a media press conference into a big joke while their lawyer watched. They were determined NOT to play the sound bite game. picked by Browntrout 3 years ago

Three year old Ethan LaCroix has been found alive and well after being publicized in Alaska's first ever Amber Alert. Unfortunately it wasn't the public who found him, Ethan's mother has been accused of contriving the plan to hide Ethan as she was afraid of losing him to her soon-to-be ex-husband. picked by equinox 9 months ago

SALEM Ore. - Police Wednesday arrested a man they think was responsible for a Craigslist post that advertised a baby for sale and listed the names of a Lebanon husband and wife said to be the infant’s drug-addicted parents. picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

Mountain Dew glows. As far as tricks involving soda go this beats that mentos/diet coke thing by far. UPDATE: A Cool HOAX, it turns out. picked by naphthos 2 years ago

The Wiki page on the "Moon Landing Hoax" just in case anyone wants to research it. picked by Moe 2 years ago

New technology that promised workers a tan from their computers is really a skin cancer charity awareness campaign picked by Franz6 10 months ago

The recent post about the direction of the media got me to thinking of some of the great hoaxes and hoaxsters over the years. Here is one of the better hoaxsters that realized the media wasn't after the truth so much as a good story. picked by steelshooter 2 years ago

The blogosphere has been buzzing with the story of the world's biggest drawing created by sending a GPS package via DHL for 55 days. DHL & 'artist' admit now it is a hoax. Update to this. picked by mediterranean 1 year ago