hoaxer

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

hoaxer
    n 1: someone who plays practical jokes on others [syn:
         {prankster}, {cut-up}, {trickster}, {tricker}, {hoaxer},
         {practical joker}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Hoaxer \Hoax"er\, n.
   One who hoaxes.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoaxer":
      Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli,
      Machiavellian, actor, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, charmer,
      counterfeiter, deceiver, deluder, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger,
      double-dealer, duper, enchanter, entrancer, faker, fooler, forger,
      gay deceiver, hypnotizer, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder,
      leg-puller, mesmerizer, misleader, plagiarist, plagiarizer,
      playactor, practical joker, ragger, role-player, seducer, spoofer,
      tease, teaser