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hoax noun artifice, beguilement, canard, cheat, circumvention, counterfeit, cozenage, deceit, defraudation, delusion, device, dupery, duplicity, fake, false alarm, false report, falsification, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, imposition, imposture, lie, ludificatio, machination, masquerade, pettifogging, practical joke, pretense, ruse, scheme, sham, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trick, trickery, wile Associated concepts: false representation, forgery, fraud, impersonation See also: artifice, betray, bilk, bunko, canard, circumvent, collusion, deceive, deception, defraud, delude, dupe, ensnare, evade, fake, false pretense, falsification, frame up, hoodwink, illude, imposture, knavery, maneuver, misrepresent, palter, pretense, pretext, ruse, trick How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But some merchants try to pass off fakes as legitimate merchandise, Smith said, and police had been investigating the Kims' operation for several months. EBay, which has 180 million members, says that it has no responsibility for fakes listed on its site because it is merely a marketplace. One of the reasons the counter-trey is productive is because it fakes action away from the point of attack. |
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