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Things that were not as they seemed

 * 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