Fake Tweet Claiming Assad Is Dead Affects Oil Markets 104
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.'"
PROFIT! (Score:5, Funny)
1. Send fake tweet
2. Buy oil stocks after they go down
3. Sell them after they go up again
4. PROFIT!
Re:PROFIT! (Score:3, Funny)
No they couldn't have, becuase you post as AC. Besides, nobody wants to partner with someone who can't even speak properly.
Are you the type of person who would cut off your nose despite your face?
Do you consider things for all intensive purposes?
Do you think I am making a mute point?
Maybe you could care less?
Re:Fake tweet?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:PROFIT! (Score:2, Funny)
Lose, not loose.
-The grammar Fuhrer
Re:PROFIT! (Score:5, Funny)
1. Buy Facebook stock
2.
No, wait...
Re:Fake tweet?? (Score:2, Funny)
The tweet is fake because Bashar isn't dead. He's just resting. Remarkable dictators the Assad family. Lovely oil fields.
He's pining for the fjords.