Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
The "Look Who Died in an Accident" is a Facebook Messenger phishing scam used by scammers. The messages pretend that someone died in order to get you to click a phishing link. The link in the "Look Who Died in an Accident" messages sometimes pretends to go to perhaps a CNN website or LinkedIn page.
On Facebook Messenger, scammers will send the "died in an accident" message to users as if a friend died in an accident, which might appear legitimate since it's coming from a friend. It’s kind of like a viral phishing scam or hack that aims to use friends’ accounts to take down accounts for friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, etc. If you click one of the scammy links in the message from your friend, a hacker or scammer might then inform all of your friends that you died in an accident, which would obviously frighten some of your family and friends who think it’s real.
If any users receive a message on Facebook Messenger that claims someone died in an accident and it has a link to an unknown website, I recommend never clicking the link. If you can contact your friend who had their account hacked by calling their phone number, that’s a good way to potentially help them get their account back. Visit facebook.com/hacked for instructions on how to do that.
The “died in an accident” Facebook Messenger message is just one example of a messaging phishing scam or hack. The messages don’t have to be about someone who potentially died. Instead, it could be something else entirely. All the scammers need to do is show a link that, once clicked, allows them to take over your account, and they will have succeeded in their goal of hacking.
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Look who died in an accident hxxps://ltd6. sbs/f1Du.ziJF.euThis is the link attached to the message I received on FB messenger
I buried to click on the link and when it wouldn't do anything I copied and pasted to Google to open. Google said page not available so do I have to worry or what steps do I take?
There is nothing to worry about.
Don't click on the link
This is a variation of the "OMG is this you in the video?" PM scam that was going around a couple of years ago. Again, the friend who supposedly sent it to you had fallen for it, and their login info got harvested. If you send the friend a PM, they might not see it, but the hacker might.It has happened to several of friends of mine, and I've sent them the Facebook/hacked link with info on how to kick the hacker out of their account. A couple of years ago, I tried to log in and see the nonexistent video, and sometime later, got a notice from Facebook that someone had tried to log in to my account from Hungary or some other country where I've never been and will probably never go. I checked recent logins and found no "squatter," but I created a new (and stronger) password, and have had no problems since.
I clicked on it but you have to actually log into it for them to steal it. It asks for your login information.
I received a message from Messenger today from a friend. There is so salutation. It just says "Look who died in an accident. I think you know him so sorry", following by a link to click. The link starts with http://tiktok.ace1.us/...I did not click on this link since I questioned this message. My friend doesn't use Facebook messenger much, and why wouldn't the friend just name the person who died. It seemed fishy.
