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Brad Pitt Suicide Facebook Scam

  • 02-10-2016 08:18PM
    #1
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭


    Apologies if I posted this on wrong forum, please move if so.

    Anyway I clicked on a seemingly legit link to a FOX news article posted by a friend on the above. I thought something was up afterwards and researched it and then I learned of the scam that's been going on for the last few days apparently, i.e. not true at all.

    I've since changed my Facebook password but are there anymore steps I can take?


Comments

  • #2
    liamo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭liamo


    If you use the same email/password combination on other sites/services, change those as well.

    Edit:
    This only really applies if you entered your credentials into the phishing page.
    Or if you think you did.
    Or if you can't remember.

    Oh, let's play it safe - change them anyway.
    jaxxx wrote: »
    Apologies if I posted this on wrong forum, please move if so.

    Anyway I clicked on a seemingly legit link to a FOX news article posted by a friend on the above. I thought something was up afterwards and researched it and then I learned of the scam that's been going on for the last few days apparently, i.e. not true at all.

    I've since changed my Facebook password but are there anymore steps I can take?


  • #3
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    liamo wrote: »
    If you use the same email/password combination on other sites/services, change those as well.

    Edit:
    This only really applies if you entered your credentials into the phishing page.
    Or if you think you did.
    Or if you can't remember.

    Oh, let's play it safe - change them anyway.

    Didn't enter anything, just clicked on the link. I use different passwords for all sites that my email is linked to.


  • #4
    liamo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭liamo


    Probably* nothing to worry about then :)

    *Depending on your level of paranoia (or what you might like to call "common sense", depending on your level of paranoia ;))

    jaxxx wrote: »
    Didn't enter anything, just clicked on the link. I use different passwords for all sites that my email is linked to.


  • #5
    Harika
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭Harika


    A virus/malware scan might also be a good idea.


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