a fraudulent imitation: counterfeit, forgery, sham

Read around the typos for the best spelling mistake we've seen all day, found in a blog comment:

I believe psychics who laim to be able to predict the future and speak to dead people etc are all phoneys, but some people get to be good phoneys by becoming extremely good at guessing whats going to hapen next!

This particular quote just needed an illustration, so here's a phoney picture: