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Chris Lloyd of OVMRO called the hoaxer "irresponsible".

It is thought the unidentified hoaxer also caught out Barclays chief executive Jes Staley earlier this month, faking emails from the bank's chairman John McFarlane.

A SERIAL bomb hoaxer who repeatedly wasted police time was jailed for two years over yet more drunken prank calls.

It is understood the hoaxer phoned gardai shortly before 6.30am and officers treated the threat as "credible".

Yesterday we told of RNLI crews being sent on a wild goose chase by a hoaxer, and only a few weeks ago we ran a front page story on a stag party attempting to climb Snowdon in their pyjamas.

TWITTER is rife with hoaxers pretending to the rich and famous.

The apology, printed in the Oxford Mail newspaper, named the hoaxer as Matthew Biel, 18, from Didcot, Oxfordshire, and included a message from his mother saying the whole family was "sickened" by his actions.

The figures come in the week that Northumbria Police - which noted a small drop in calls from 3,762 to 3,665 over the last year - saw a serial hoaxer jailed.

Infamous hoaxer Wearside Jack is said to be just weeks away from being released from prison.

BEARS star Ian Bell has fallen victim to a Twitter hoaxer.

Specifically, well-designed hoaxes require responders to argue they are prepared for a potential crisis, but they must establish this argument in a context where the hoaxer's claims are concurrently questioned and, when possible, soundly refuted.

HOAXER Billy Boyd - who duped record label bosses into believing he was an American rap star - is being chased for pounds 10,000.

Gardai are checking CCTV footage to identify the hoaxer.