A hoax is a term that describes anything that is not real. For example, many hoax e-mails are distributed to cause false fears. For example, the Bad Times virus claimed to be a virus capable of erasing everything on your computer hard drive as well as any disks or other magnetic media around your computer.
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Answer: A hoax is an act, document or artifact intended to deceive or defraud the public. Examples range from relatively benign instances of trickery, such as April Fools pranks, to scientific fraud on a grand scale, such as the Piltdown Man hoax of the early 20th century.
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A hoax is an act, document or artifact intended to deceive or defraud the public. Examples range from relatively benign instances of trickery, such as April Fools pranks, to scientific fraud on a grand scale, such as the Piltdown Man hoax of the early 20th century.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/urbanlegends/f/hoax.htm
A virus hoax is a false warning about a computer virus. Typically, the warning arrives in an e-mail note or is distributed through a note in a company's internal network.
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For example, many hoax e-mails are distributed to cause false fears. For example, the Bad Times virus claimed to be a virus capable of erasing everything on your computer hard drive as well as any disks or other magnetic media around your computer.
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/hoax.htm
Hoaxes, as a broad category, can encompass a broad variety of phenomena. In particular, the term 'hoax' is often used to describe specialized forms of deception such as cases of fraud, pranks, and tall tales.
http://hoaxes.org/what.html
The perfume hoax is a scam when you are in the parking lot. 2 people will come in a car and ask you to sniff some perfume that they are selling. DO NOT come near the car and … just walk away. When they ask you to sniff the perfume its not perfume. Its ember, or some other substance that mkaes you black out very fast.
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A hoax is a term that describes anything that is not real. For example, many hoax e-mails are distributed to cause false fears.
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/hoax.htm
hoax. n. 1. An act intended to deceive or trick.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hoax
In particular, the term 'hoax' is often used to describe specialized forms of deception such as cases of fraud, pranks, and tall tales. Often, but not always. The crucial distinction seems to be that only when these forms of deception attract enough public attention, do they begin to be referred to as hoaxes.
http://hoaxes.org/what.html
what is a hoax
A hoax is an act, document or artifact intended to deceive or defraud the public. 