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topical index: frauds & hoaxes

News: Airborne Agrees to Pay $23.3 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over False Advertising of its "Miracle Cold Buster" (Read Terra Sigillata and Respectful Insolence)

• Archaeoraptor
• Aztec UFO hoax
• Bridey Murphy
• Cardiff Giant
• "Carlos" hoax
• Castaneda, Carlos
• Cottingly fairy hoax
• crop circle
• Dianetics
• Dixon, Jeane
• firewalking
• Ford, Arthur hoax
• Fritz, Dr.
• Geller, Uri (accused of being a fraud by James Randi, but he denies it)
• haunted house
• herbal fuel
• Ica stones
• Indian rope trick
• Inset Fuel Stabilizer
• Januarius
• Knight, J.Z. (Ramtha)
• Lenz, Frederick (Rama)
• medium
• microacupuncture
• multi-level marketing (MLM)
• multi-level marketing (MLM) harassment
• Nigerian scam
• perfect prediction scam
• Piltdown Hoax
• Philadelphia Experiment
• Project Alpha
• Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• Protsch (von Zieten), Reiner
• psychic
• Pufedorf hoax
• pyramid schemes, chain letters, & Ponzi schemes
• Quadro Tracker
• Raëlian
• Rama
• Rampa, Lobsang
• Ramtha
• Rath, Matthias
• Rivas, Catalina
• Sai Baba
• shroud of Turin
• Soal-Goldney experiment
• Sokal hoax
• Steve Terbot hoax
• Trudeau, Kevin
• Urantia Book
• Van Praagh, James

Other Sources 

Too Good to Be True

"Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World." Robert Carroll (2004). Skeptical Inquirer. volume 28, No. 4. July/August, pp. 41-46.

Michael Shermer and "the pigeon drop" con (YouTube)

• "The Serpent’s" Tale by Kurt W. Burchfiel (Strange Magazine)
• Alias Carlos Allende:The Mystery Man Behind the Philadelphia Experiment by Robert A. Goerman
• Chuck Whitlock
• Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes
• Computer Virus hoaxes
• Consumer Reports
• Encyclopedia of Scams
• Eric's History of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines
• Fairy Tale An Untrue Story Fairy Photographs, Piltdown Man, and Faked Vermeer Paintings The Debunking of Three Hoaxes by James Opie
• Federal Consumer Information Center
• Federal Trade Commission Home Page 
• FTC: Miracle Health Claims - Add a Dose of Skepticism
• Internet Crime Complaint Center
• Internet Scambusters
• It's a Fake! by Lee Moller
• Museum of Hoaxes
• Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
• National Fraud Information Center
• National Institute for Consumer Education
• NESARA scam
• New "Shroud" Claims Challenged as Spurious 
• Piltdown Man by Richard Harter 
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• The IDChip spoof
• TruthorFiction.com
• Urban Legends & Folklore
• Urban Legends Reference Pages snopes.com
• What's Wrong with Multi-level Marketing?

Recommended Reading

Brugioni, Dino A. Photo Fakery : The History and Techniques of Photographic Deception and Manipulation (Brasseys Inc., 1999)

Feder, Kenneth L. Frauds, Mysteries and Myths: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology 3rd ed. (Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1998).

Judson, Horace Freeland. (2004). The Great Betrayal : Fraud in Science. Harcourt.

Keene, M. Lamar. The Psychic Mafia (Prometheus, 1997).

McCoy, Bob. Quack! : Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (Santa Monica Press, 2000).

Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1995)

Randi, James. The Faith Healers (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1987).

Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1982)

Randi, James. The Truth about Uri Geller, (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1982)

Stein, Gordon. Encyclopedia of Hoaxes (Prometheus, 1993).

Stein, Gordon. Hoaxes!: Dupes, Dodges & Other Dastardly Deceptions (Visible Ink Press 1995).

Steiner, Robert A. Don't Get Taken: Bunco & Bunkum Exposed -  How to Protect Yourself (Wide-A-Wake Books, 1989).

Swierczynski, Duane. The Complete Idiot's Guide To Frauds, Scams, and Cons (Alpha Books 2002).