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Best-selling biography featured fake Bob Dylan quotes A young star of American journalism has acknowledged he concocted quotes from Bob Dylan in his best-selling biography of the American folk legend.

31 July 2012

Hacker posts fake New York Times editorial The New York Times, which famously insists on the accuracy of its reports, was red faced Sunday after being fooled by a hacker's posting of an online editorial under the name of ex-boss Bill Keller.

30 July 2012

American deserter resurfaces in Sweden, 28 years later An American fugitive who has been missing and "wanted" since he deserted the US Air Force in 1984 has turned up in Sweden where he has been living under a under a new identity for nearly three decades.

20 July 2012

Interpol unveils fake goods scanning app with Google Global policing body Interpol announced Tuesday a pioneering initiative to crack down on trade in fake goods, using an app developed with the help of search giant Google.

19 July 2012

Australians being fleeced by fake investment schemes Australians have been fleeced out of more than Aus$113 million (US$115 million) in the last five years by complex fake investment schemes run by overseas criminal gangs.

09 July 2012

Pyongyang parade's fake missiles and smuggled Mercedes: UN North Korea may have put fake versions of a new missile on display at a major military parade this year, UN sanctions experts said in a report.

01 July 2012

2,000 tenge notes counterfeiters rounded in Pavlodar A Pavlodar citizen was apprehended in suspicion of running of an underground shop for production and sales of counterfeit notes.

11 April 2012