Brad Pitt Suicide Facebook Scam

jaxxx

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?

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?

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.

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.

Harika

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