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Imposture and Deception[edit]
Things that were not as they seemed[edit]
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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