På måndag, september 13, a press release was published by globenewswire.com and said it was connected to “Walmart Inc,” the American multinational retail corporation. Several mainstream media outlets published stories about it including Reuters, Bloomberg, and CNBC. Not too long after these reports were published, the press release was verified as being “not authentic” by a Walmart spokesperson.
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Fake Walmart and Litecoin News Exposes Pump and Dump Scheme
It appears that a phony Walmart press release has been published on Monday which said that the Walmart retail chain was partnering with the cryptocurrency project Litecoin. The press release featured Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, and Charlie Lee the creator of Litecoin.
vidare, en official Litecoin Twitter account with a blue checkmark also tweeted about the press release. The release claimed Walmart partnered with Litecoin and would be accepting litecoin (LTC) for payments. i alla fall, not too long after the globenewswire.com press release was published, the story was suspected as being phony.
A number of cryptocurrency influencers twittrade out that it was “fake.” One individual upptäckt that the name “WALMART-CORP.COM,” the email used in the globenewswire.com press release, did not go to an official website. The name “WALMART-CORP.COM” was also registered last month.
The news never appeared in Walmart’s official online newsroom and the account that registered “Walmart Inc” had never published before this event. A Walmart spokesperson confirmed with CNBC that the press release published on Monday was “not authentic.”
A Walmart spokesperson who spoke with Bloomberg said that the “statement on Litecoin was inauthentic.” The official Litecoin Twitter account den där tweeted the news has since deleted the tweet. The web page archive.org shows that no one managed to get the tweet saved but there are plenty of screenshots of the tweet.
*LITECOIN VERIFIED ACCOUNT DELETES TWEET ON WALMART PACT
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) september 13, 2021
Litecoin (LTC) gained 28.9% in a 24 hour period after the fake news went viral, but since the report was confirmed as phony LTC prices saw all those gains erased. LTC is now a few percentages lower.
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