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29th Jun 2015

Sky Sports duped into reporting tweet from fake Roy Keane account

But the profile picture looked legit...

Patrick McCarry

Let he has reported a sports news story based on a tweet from an account purporting to be from a footballer cast the first stone.

Sky Sports and Portuguese publication A Bola both, unfortunately, fell for the newest oldest trick in the book, over the weekend.

The organisations ran with a story about Keane praising Portugual Under-21 midfielder William Carvalho and urging Premier League sides to sign him up.

Problem is, Keane is not on Twitter with a verified account.

https://twitter.com/RoyKeane__/status/614879158661857280

Sky Sports have since deleted the segment [above] of their transfer round-up but A Bola continue to run with the piece.

One look at the users Twitter bio should have quelled the story in the first place.

‘Sky sources report… ‘

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