Fake Pregnancy Test

Fake can be funny! Imagine this scenario: after an intimate bout with your girlfriend, you're confronted with an unpleasant case of condom failure. To play it safe, you offer to get her a home pregancy test, which, to her dismay, comes up positive. At the doorstep of the abortion clinic, you turn to meet her tear-drenched eyes, smile wide, and say...

April Fools! That was a Fakenewspapers.com Fake Pregnancy Test, guaranteed positive results every time! And only $17.95!

What a way to brigthen a gal's day.

Moscow Fake Capital of the World?

This LA Times article describes a Moscow travel agency that will, for a moderate fee, give you a fake vacation.

"If the customer is an errant husband who wants his wife to believe he's on a fishing trip, Persey offers not just photos of him on the river, but a cellphone with a distant number, a lodge that if anyone calls will swear the husband is checked in but not available, and a few dead fish on ice."

One Siberian gas station proprietor even paid $2000 for the company to help him convince his friends that he visited the moon.

The article also discusses Russia's thriving counterfeit industry, an industry accounting for 50% of all goods sold in Russia, according to officials.