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Fake Tweet Claiming Assad Is Dead Affects Oil Markets

Posted by samzenpus on from the 140-kinds-of-mischief dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently someone set up a fake Twitter account under the name of a Russian Foreign Minister and said President Assad of Syria had been hurt/killed. From the article: 'The ministry and the embassy denied the veracity of the report and a message later appeared on the same Twitter account saying "this account is a hoax." It did not say what the aim of the hoax was although it had briefly affected oil markets.'"

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  1. PROFIT! by nbauman · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Send fake tweet

    2. Buy oil stocks after they go down

    3. Sell them after they go up again

    4. PROFIT!

    1. Re:PROFIT! by Eyeball97 · · Score: 4, Funny

      1. Buy Facebook stock

      2.

      No, wait...

  2. Re:Fake tweet?? by NonUniqueNickname · · Score: 4, Funny

    The tweet is fake because Bashar isn't dead. He's just resting. Remarkable dictators the Assad family. Lovely oil fields.