We get one such false prophet in Jeremiah 28. Hananiah predicts that God will break the yoke of the Babylonians. He even removes the literal yoke that Jeremiah is still wearing and breaks it.
Jeremiah then prophesies that Hananiah will die because he is spreading lies and that God has not send Hananiah. Hananiah then dies 7 months later.
It is easy to see how Hananiah would have a lot of influence over the people of Judah simply by telling them what they want to hear. Jeremiah tells them to surrender and their lives will be spared whereas this competing, but false, prophet tells them the exact opposite. Jerusalem had been saved miraculously many times in the past so why should this be any different? What should the people of Judah do? Who should they believe?
Well, Hananiah dies shortly thereafter, giving credibility to Jeremiah and his grim prophecies.
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