Two instances spring to mind: firstly, the woman who faked being a 9/11 survivor and actually ended up leading an organisation for survivors until someone worked out that she hadn't been in the towers at all - her story is covered in the documentary The Woman Who Wasn't There. Secondly, the many many faked deaths online - but somehow it's now happened multiple times in the world of hand-dyed yarn sellers, where sellers who have got in over their heads with orders have ended up faking their own deaths to get out of having to issue refunds they can't afford to pay back.
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