Are there any VMS-type hoaxes?

[Rafal]

It has always my opinion that people use the words "hoax" and "forgery" too loosely when it comes to the VM. What it always comes down to is the intention of the creators, which we cannot know.

I believe that "hoax" is simply an attempt to make people accept and believe in something false. The similar words are "mystification", "fraud", "swindle", "deception". For me it doesn't matter if it was made for money, to spread some ideology, to make someone a fool or just as a joke.

Some people would add that hoax is something elaborate, involving substantial amount of work.

"Forgery" is a more narrow term and involves creating some fake physical object attributed to another creator. "Hoax" is a broader term, it may be just a rumour.

Now I believe we can understand "hoax" in two ways when it comes to Voynich Manuscript"

1) VM seems to be a medieval manuscript but was created much later by Edward Kelley, Athanasius Kircher or Wilfried Voynich.
 While some people hold this view, the mainstream view is that it is too good to be a forgery and it is a real, medieval object indeed

2) VM is a real, medieval object but also a medieval swindle.
 The creators made it to fool some medieval collector or just folks at the marketplace that they have some extremely precious, ancient, medicinal book with secret knowledge written in some mysterious language while in fact the text is blah, blah, blah and the book was made by them

This second option seems more probable and as you know it is close to what I personally feel but proving it is another thing.