Fraudulently inauthentic (4)

I believe the answer is:

sham

(Other definitions for sham that I've seen before include "Feign" , "Mash, being counterfeit" , "Not what it seems to be" , "imitation" , "Phoney, bogus" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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