Earlier this month, an Internet report was posted to CNN's iReport website, stating that Apple Incorporated’s Chief Executing Officer (CEO) Steve Jobs had suffered a heart-attack.

The story, which turned out to be downright fake, seems to have been posted by unnamed 18-year old teenager, who apparently had no interest in concocting the false heart-attack, since investigations into the matter have showed that the person had not benefited from the drop in the company’s stocks. The news about Jobs’ alleged condition rendered Apple’s stock to go down by five percent on October 3.

The report, which is currently being looked into by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, in an attempt to determine what prompted the teen to post it, read that Steve Jobs had experienced chest pains and shortness of breath and that consequently, paramedics had been called to the scene.

Apple was quick to invalidate the report, but not as quick as to prevent the company’s stock to fall.

This recent incident comes only approximately two months after Bloomberg newswire inadvertently published Jobs’ obituary back at the end of August. The 17-page document reporting his death was immediately pulled from the newswire, but, once again, not rapidly enough, since Gawker.com was able to save it and publish it in its turn.

Over the past months, numerous rumors concerning Apple’s CEO’s health condition have been circulating in the media, especially after everybody was troubled to see a haggard-looking Jobs at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference held in June this year.