Converse of object

• perpetrate: Many of the oddest sightings were, he believed, hoaxes often perpetrated by journalists short of copy in the silly season.

• expose: Many thanks for reviewing my booklet exposing the great religious hoax on the human race.

Preposition: on

• race: He blew the whistle on the great religious hoax on the human race.

Adjective modifier

• elaborate: Cloning may be ' elaborate hoax ' says monitor.

• gigantic: Its message is either the supreme fact in history or else a gigantic hoax.

• cruel: In November 1942, a cruel hoax was played upon the Camp.

• religious: He blew the whistle on the great religious hoax on the human race.

• great: Recovery: the great hoax / New Zealand Labor Party.

• common: Some of the more common hoaxes are detailed below.

Modifies a noun

• caller: Every week the London Fire Brigade goes out on around 80 emergency calls which turn out to be made by hoax callers.

• e-mails: You also have to be careful in how you treat hoax e-mails.

• emails: There are a great many hoax emails going the rounds still.

• call: Nothing found, believed to be a hoax call.

• warning: Most virus hoax warnings do not deviate far from this pattern.

• bomb: Three students, were arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb.

Noun used with modifier

• virus: You can also search a list of computer virus hoaxes & virus hysteria from A to Z.

• bomb: Stratton Upper School has been the victim of two bomb hoaxes.

• moon: A Google search on the terms " moon hoax " yields a quarter million hits; " apollo fake " a hundred thousand more.

• Internet: Author's Note: Our health is too important to be controlled by an internet hoax.

• email: There is a good list from IBM at Hype Alert which also includes reports of well-known email hoaxes.