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According to TASS news agency, the earlier version of the law had a maximum term of five years of rigorous imprisonment for the bomb hoaxers.

The phone line often then goes dead with the hoaxer scared off.

This hysteria may be empowering to hoaxers. As emotions run high, hoaxers engage in what Collins described as "the attack emulation process" (p.

"Gardai must then ensure that hoaxers who put lives at risk by making bogus 999 calls are prosecuted."

Hoaxers using their mobiles to make false 999 fire calls are being cut off - at a rate of more than six a month.

Cruel hoaxers phoned a sick pensioner to tell him he was on death's door.

The Government has already warned that hoaxers will be tracked down and prosecuted.

POLICE yesterday released a CD of the voices of five of Britain's sickest hoaxers.

DETECTIVES hunting anthrax hoaxers who sent dozens of white powder parcels to organisations were today studying information from callers following a good response to a television appeal.

NEW laws to jail sick hoaxers who terrify the public with fake anthrax alerts came into effect at midnight.

The hoaxers send faxes to companies with an innocent message like, "See you at Jenny's at eight - don't forget to bring the wine."

It has its share of vandals, criminals, hucksters and hoaxers who prey on the unsuspecting or ill-informed.

How these crop circles were created in the dead of night at the height of the summer growing season remains a puzzle, though hoaxers have claimed responsibility for some of them.

London, Jan 26 (ANI): Gossip websites crashed after hoaxers claimed that Hollywood hunk Johnny Depp had been killed in an accident.

AN RNLI crew wasted hours searching in arctic conditions yesterday after hoaxers reported distress flares off Anglesey.