Fake E-Mail Results in Angry Apple Shareholders

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @10:25AM from the solid-gold-stock-tips-buy-buy-buy dept.

drhamad writes "Apple stock dropped 2.2% today in mid-afternoon trading as Engadget published news based on a faked e-mail inside Apple. 'Apparently an internal memo was sent to several Apple employees--and forwarded to Engadget--around 9am CT today saying that Apple issued a press release with the news that the iPhone was now scheduled for October, and Leopard was delayed until January. About an hour and a half after that e-mail went out, a second e-mail was sent--this time officially from Apple--saying the first e-mail was a fake, and that the delivery schedule for the iPhone and Leopard had not changed.'"

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Pump & Dump by VisceralLogic · 2007-05-16 10:27 · Score: 0, Troll

The spammers have hacked Apple!

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Re:What I'm surprised about... by larry+bagina · 2007-05-16 12:43 · Score: 0, Troll

well, slashdot posts fake news all the time. I guess that just goes to show that nobody influential reads slashdot.

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