Category:Deception
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Deception is the act of propagating a belief that is not true, or is not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as distraction, camouflage, or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith. It can also be called, with varying subjective implications, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, ruse, or subterfuge.
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This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 42 total.
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Pages in category "Deception"
The following 141 pages are in this category, out of approximately 254 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Magic (illusion)
- Magic pipe
- Malinformation
- Malvertising
- Maria Duval scam
- Mechanic's grip
- Military impostor
- Miming in instrumental performance
- List of miscellaneous fake news websites
- Misdirection (magic)
- Misinformation
- Mismarking
- Misprision of treason
- Mock auction
- Motivation impairment effect
- Mutual deceit
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- Paltering
- Passing off
- List of patent medicines
- Paternalistic deception
- Perverting the course of justice
- Phishing
- Pious fiction
- Placebo
- Placebo button
- Plain folks
- Playback singer
- Playing the victim
- Poisoning the well
- List of political disinformation website campaigns
- List of political disinformation website campaigns in the United States
- Potemkin village
- Predatory advertising
- Predatory conference
- Predatory lending
- Predatory mortgage securitization
- Predatory mortgage servicing
- Predatory publishing
- Preference falsification
- Propaganda
- Pseudolaw
- Pseudophilosophy
- Pseudoreligion
- Pseudoscience
- Pseudotheology
- Psychological subversion
- Puffery
- Punjab National Bank Scam
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- Saradha Group financial scandal
- List of satirical fake news websites
- Scam City
- Scams in intellectual property
- Secret passage
- Security theater
- Self-deception
- Sham peer review
- Sham surgery
- Shill
- Shrinkflation
- Sliding bookcase
- Smear campaign
- Smoke and mirrors
- Smuggling tunnel
- Social engineering (security)
- Sock puppet account
- Solomon Joseph Solomon
- Spin (propaganda)
- Spoofing (anti-piracy measure)
- Sportswashing
- Spyware
- 2022 West Bengal School Service Commission recruitment scam
- SSC Scam
- Statement analysis
- Stealth juror
- Superstition in India
- Swampland in Florida