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Fake Worlds Collide: Woman Posed As a Boy to Seduce a Minor, Then Helped Solve an Online Cancer Hoax

Adrian Chen · 06/14/12 12:49PM

Last week we brought you the story of how a group of online detectives uncovered an elaborate internet cancer hoax that lasted for 11 years. But as they worked to get to the bottom of one hoax, an even more twisted one was right in their midst: now it's been revealed that one of the people involved in the investigation was a woman posing as a teenage boy to prey on an underaged girl.