Investors Race to Buy ‘Fried Air’

Dutch investors scrambled to buy shares in fictitious firm F/Rite Air (pronounced “Fried Air”), sending more

than $6.5 million in orders to an investment Web site before discovering it was an April Fools prank.

California-based F/Rite Air had been billed as having developed an “air ioniser” that might take the place of anti-depressant drug Prozac and

that was being tested by the U.S. Air Force.