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  2. List of fictitious people - Wikipedia

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    Fictitious people are nonexistent people, who, unlike fictional characters, have been claimed to actually exist. Usually this is done as a practical joke or hoax, but sometimes fictitious people are 'created' as part of a fraud. A pseudonym may also be considered by some to be a "fictitious person", although this is not the correct definition.

  3. List of impostors - Wikipedia

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    Many people who knew Larissa strongly suspected that she was the former grand duchess of Russia. Nadezhda Vasilyeva, appeared in the 1920s in Russia and claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. She died in a psychiatric ward in 1971 in Kazan, Russia. Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 1499), pretender to the throne of England

  4. Social hacking - Wikipedia

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    For example, advances in today's technology make it easier than ever to portray another person. This method is known as creating a "deepfake". A deep fake is where someone can recreate somebody else's face and voice with a computer program. It is used to fake people saying and doing things they have never done or said before. [20] "Public ...

  5. Fake People, Real Threat: How AI is Spreading Disinformation

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    While artificial intelligence has broad applications across many different fields, experts are now worried about it being used to spread disinformation. It's using life-like AI figures to promote ...

  6. Scammers love the holidays. Here's how to protect yourself.

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    An example could be a fake social media ad for a holiday product that sends you to a scam website or an email saying that a package you ordered for a Christmas gift is delayed and needs your approval.

  7. Sock puppet account - Wikipedia

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    The court also found, however, that the comments of the defendants "which do not create a false impression of fake patients or fake employees, or fake persons connected to program (those posted under their respective names) are protected by The Constitution of the United States of America, First Amendment."

  8. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks , typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.

  9. Truth behind the Donald Trump quote from 1998 that's rapidly ...

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    As it turns out, though, the lines have been proven fake. According to fact-checking site Snopes, they found no record of Trump saying this in 1998 or any other time according to their research.