Category:Deception

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.

Subcategories

This category has the following 42 subcategories, out of 42 total.

C

Camouflage (4 C, 7 P)
Cheating (9 C, 2 P)
Clandestine groups (8 C, 44 P)
Communication of falsehoods (21 C, 59 P)
Confidence tricks (6 C, 149 P)
Conspiracy (4 C, 16 P)
Corruption (20 C, 49 P)
Cover-ups (9 C, 84 P)
Covert organizations (1 C, 28 P)

D

Deception operations (5 C, 6 P)
Decoys (1 C, 14 P)
Delusions (27 P)
Disinformation (8 C, 47 P)
Diversionary tactics (5 C, 21 P)

F

Factitious disorders (1 C, 13 P)
Fake news (5 C, 65 P)
Fakelore (5 C, 39 P)
False advertising (1 C, 21 P)
Fraud (38 C, 146 P)
Front companies (1 C, 1 P)
Front organizations (3 C, 53 P)

H

Hoaxes (30 C, 33 P)
Hypocrisy (18 P)

I

Illusions (6 C, 32 P)

L

Lying (8 C, 43 P)

M

Magic (illusion) (14 C, 36 P)
Masks (13 C, 9 P)
Military deception (6 C, 23 P)
Misinformation (4 C, 34 P)
Misuse of statistics (27 P)

O

Obfuscation (15 C, 16 P)

P

Passing (sociology) (4 C, 19 P)
Perverting the course of justice (1 C, 5 P)
Propaganda (13 C, 59 P)
Pseudo-scholarship (5 C, 12 P)
Pseudofossils (5 P)
Pseudohistory (24 C, 225 P)
Pseudoscience (74 C, 470 P)

S

Scientific misconduct (5 C, 32 P)
Sleight of hand (3 C, 52 P)
Social deduction games (2 C, 11 P)

T

Tricksters (2 C, 4 P)

Pages in category "Deception"

The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 256 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

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1992 Indian stock market scam

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