THELOGICALINDIAN - On Monday September 13 a columnist absolution was appear by globenewswirecom and said it was affiliated to Walmart Inc the American bunch retail association Several boilerplate media outlets appear belief about it including Reuters Bloomberg and CNBC Not too continued afterwards these letters were appear the columnist absolution adage Walmart and Litecoin partnered was absolute as actuality not accurate by a Walmart agent
Fake Walmart and Litecoin News Exposes Pump and Dump Scheme
It appears that a affected Walmart columnist absolution has been appear on Monday which said that the Walmart retail alternation was partnering with the cryptocurrency activity Litecoin. The columnist absolution featured Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, and Charlie Lee the architect of Litecoin.
Furthermore, an official Litecoin Twitter account with a dejected checkmark additionally tweeted about the columnist release. The absolution claimed Walmart partnered with Litecoin and would be accepting litecoin (LTC) for payments. However, not too continued afterwards the globenewswire.com columnist absolution was published, the adventure was doubtable as actuality phony.
A cardinal of cryptocurrency influencers tweeted out that it was “fake.” One alone discovered that the name “WALMART-CORP.COM,” the email acclimated in the globenewswire.com columnist release, did not go to an official website. The name “WALMART-CORP.COM” was additionally registered aftermost month.
The annual never appeared in Walmart’s official online newsroom and the annual that registered “Walmart Inc” had never appear afore this event. A Walmart agent confirmed with CNBC that the columnist absolution appear on Monday was “not authentic.”
A Walmart agent who batten with Bloomberg said that the “statement on Litecoin was inauthentic.” The official Litecoin Twitter annual that tweeted the news has back deleted the tweet. The web folio archive.org shows that no one managed to get the cheep adored but there are affluence of screenshots of the tweet.
Litecoin (LTC) acquired 28.9% in a 24 hour aeon afterwards the affected account went viral, but back the address was accepted as phony, LTC prices saw all those assets erased. LTC is now a few percentages lower than afore the spike.
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