On Monday night (Sept 1) a news article link was spread on the internet that appeared to be a CNet News.com article reporting that the reason for the significant delays for Apple's 2.0GHz PowerMac G5s was due to a series of mishaps by a disgruntled employee.
Closer examination of the URL, however, reveals a common form of url masking which is used to hide the actual address. This method has been used in the past for other "Fake" articles as well as for PayPal and eBay scams and frauds.
All text before and including the @ is disregarded when you enter this into your browser. The site that is accessed is "208.191.58.123", which resolves to someone's ADSL address (adsl-208-191-58-123.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net).
Screenshot of Fake:
eBay and PalPal scams work in a similar fashion via SPAM with users being told that they need to reenter their personal information (Credit Card, SSN) in similiarly faked URLs (http://www.ebay.com@123.123.123.123/etc...)
These fake sites are otherwise indistinguishable from the original site.