Hoax
Hoax
Some hoaxers intend to eventually unmask their representations as having been a hoax so as to expose their victims as fools; seeking some form of profit, other hoaxers hope to maintain the hoax indefinitely, so that it is only when skeptical people willing to investigate their claims publish their findings, that the hoaxers are finally revealed as such.
Types
Hoaxes vary widely in their processes of creation, propagation, and entrenchment over time. Examples include:
Hoax
!The [Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is the writer Virginia Woolf.](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Dreadnoughthoaxlargerphoto%28cropped%29.png/330px-Dreadnoughthoaxlargerphoto%28cropped%29.png)
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