hoax phone call

When Phil returned home, he received a hoax phone call from an anonymous caller.

And the hoax phone calls.

As Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, readily conceded on Friday, hoax phone calls are "always a little embarrassing."

Writing about Lewis-Smith's hoax phone calls in The Times Higher Education, Sally Feldman observed that "He chooses his victims carefully, pricking the pompous and the powerful in the very best traditions of satire.

In 2008, heavily armed police and an armored vehicle supported by helicopters and a drone entered the community to assist in removing every child and infant because of evidence gathered after investigating what was later was determined be a hoax phone call.