Do you think these rumors are real? I tend to think yes and I think this will happen soon.
To be well understood, I believe in Ethereum's potential (even though so far I have lost money investing in Ethereum, but I notice that it is still a good project and this will makes it to explode one day) and I still believe that by the end of 2018 it will have an increase of thousands of dollars, but at the same time I feel that it will drop much more than it is now before starting the growth again.
This is definitely a FUD, it is made by useless shit people who are envy of Ethereum Holders thus they want to spread FUD in order for others to be afraid and sell their ETH. But, fear not eth holders Ethereum has a huge potential in the future so keep holding it and it will lead you to greater heights!