MSNBC.com did not report this morning that in a long-anticipated move, Microsoft has acquired AOL. But after finding the above "MSNBC Breaking News" alert in my inbox this morning, I thought they did for a minute there. I even started drafting a post on the news ("Last we heard about the deal in mid-July, AOL negotiators were …"). Then my boss yelled at me. I looked at the email again and saw it came from — obviously a phishing scammer. A clever one, though, who knows Valleywag editors are hungrier for news than for Angelina Jolie's lips. A tipster tells us there's similar "Breaking News alert" email going around, declaring "Yang relinquishes control over Yahoo!"— don't believe that one, either.

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