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As a legal offense, it is not just the act of imitating a famous artist's key characteristics in a piece of art, but the deliberate financial intent by the forger. [1] When caught, some of these forgers attempt to pass off the fakes as jokes or hoaxes on the art experts and dealers they were selling to, or on the art world as a whole. [1]
John Myatt, (born 1945), is a British artist convicted of art forgery who, with John Drewe, perpetrated what has been described as "the biggest art fraud of the 20th century". [1] In 1999 he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud and imprisoned for four months.
Lord Gordon Gordon (1840–1874): British man who defrauded $1 million from Jay Gould, who was fighting for control of the Erie Railroad. Bertha Heyman (born c. 1851): American con artist, also known as "Big Bertha"; active in the United States in the late 19th century. [8] [9] Canada Bill Jones (c.1837–1880): King of the three-card monte men [5]
Games (a magazine devoted to games and puzzles) used to include a fake advertisement in each issue as one of the magazine's regular games. The book The Golden Turkey Awards describes many bizarre and obscure films. The authors of the work state that one film described by the book is a hoax, which they challenged readers to identify.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok on Tuesday began allowing users to create AI-generated images from text prompts and post them to X. Almost immediately, people began using the tool to flood the ...
The quiz show scandals of the 1950s, wherein game shows were presented as legitimate contests despite being fixed or completely scripted. A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, an antisemitic fake document. Tamara Rand's prediction of the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, which was actually made after the fact (Randi 1982:329).
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Started in 2015, this fake news website is also designed to look like a local television outlet. Several of the website's fake stories have successfully spread on social media. Has the same IP address as Action News 3. [30] [326] [327] [322] [318] [319] TheRacketReport.com TheRacketReport.com Per PolitiFact. Has the same IP address as Action ...