According to anonymous sources, there is a mountain of evidence that proves the story of the three-year-old girl who was asked to leave a KFC because of her scars is a hoax. » 6/24/14 9:40am 6/24/14 9:40am

This week, Twitter and Facebook's highly visible #BringBackOurGirls campaign highlighted the plight of 276 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. One problem: the most visible images used in that campaign are pictures of girls that aren't Nigerian. Or kidnapped. Or even technically girls… » 5/09/14 1:00pm 5/09/14 1:00pm

A woman in Canada who was pregnant with quintuplets shocked both hospital staff and her boyfriend when it turns out she wasn't pregnant at all. With any-lets. I've heard of faked cancer, faked weddings, faked girlfriends who live in Canada who were met "at summer camp," but this. This is powered up fakery. » 3/25/14 9:30pm 3/25/14 9:30pm

A birthday invitation with a homophobic message sent to two gay fathers has been revealed to be a hoax. » 2/17/14 1:15pm 2/17/14 1:15pm

A waitress who collected thousands of dollars worth of donations from well-intentioned internet denizens after a picture of a receipt allegedly containing a homophobic note that actually turned out to be fake went viral promised to donate her ill-gotten gains to charity. Except it now looks like she kinda lied about… » 12/06/13 3:45pm 12/06/13 3:45pm

A Pennsauken, New Jersey woman named Susan Stillwaggon has been telling friends, family and community members that her nine-year-old son was suffering from Stage Three Hodgkin's lymphoma. Plus she lied to the boy about it. If that first part wasn't fucked enough for you. » 4/27/13 2:30pm 4/27/13 2:30pm

The epic catfishing of Manti Te'o continues to befuddle the nation. 23-year-old Los Angeles woman Diane O'Meara, whose photographs were now infamously appropriated by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo as an avatar for the nonexistent "Lennay Kekua," wrote a piece in the L.A. Times where she basically just does this. And who can… » 1/26/13 6:00pm 1/26/13 6:00pm

Remember back in 2009 when people across the nation were glued to their TV screens because they thought a little boy (named Falcon) had flown away in a tin foil balloon and everybody just had to see whether or not he fell out of it? Of course, it turned out that the whole thing was a hoax set up by the boy's father… » 12/12/12 6:50pm 12/12/12 6:50pm

"They would kill me, and kill all of my friends, by cutting off our heads." » 7/14/12 12:30pm 7/14/12 12:30pm

Some crazy tale involving a boyfriend, a cheating girlfriend, Narnia and a poo-tattoo has gone viral, with lots of media outlets claiming that some dude inked shit on his ladyfriend's back when he found out she was cheating. But! The Smoking Gun reports that the story is "Fake. Fake. Fake." Let your friends know.… » 11/29/11 6:10pm 11/29/11 6:10pm

During his fauxpology tour last week, Tom MacMaster, the straight American man who posed as Syrian lesbian blogger Amina Arraf, told The Guardian that he doesn't regret blogging as the "Gay Girl in Damascus," because, "To a large extent it's almost as though I were writing a novel." We wondered why he didn't just … » 6/22/11 11:13pm 6/22/11 11:13pm

The revelation that the "Gay Girl In Damascus" was actually an American man in Edinburgh proved it's easy to post under a fake identity online. In fact, it's so easy that Tom MacMaster wasn't the only one. » 6/13/11 10:07pm 6/13/11 10:07pm

Dear Dudes: » 6/13/11 4:35pm 6/13/11 4:35pm

Last week, the blogosphere reacted with concern over the alleged kidnapping of Amina Araff, "an out lesbian blogger who wrote about her daily life in Damascus, Syria. » 6/12/11 4:34pm 6/12/11 4:34pm

You know how one time in high school you made up a fake boy and IM'ed some girl you didn't like as "him" and asked her out on a date, but then you couldn't figure out how to keep things going so you just told her he moved to Florida? That, on a much grander scale, is what happened to Paula Bonhomme. » 4/28/11 5:40pm 4/28/11 5:40pm

There are many imposters on the internet, but someone did a really good job of pretending to be "Hailie Jade Mathers." Several reports have claimed that Hailie — who is now 15, but was just a wee thing in the 2004 video for "Mockingbird" — is in possession of a Twitter account. Pop Eater claimed the @Angry_Blonde… » 3/16/11 2:55pm 3/16/11 2:55pm

A Spanish woman who faked her own kidnapping told police that she wanted "to find out what her husband would be willing to do for her." » 12/28/10 3:00pm 12/28/10 3:00pm