“Look who just died” is a Facebook Messenger phishing and hacking scam used by hackers, which also sometimes goes by the words, “Look who died.” The messages pretend that someone died in order to get you to click a scammy link. The link in the hoax messages for this scam sometimes pretends to go to a CNN website or LinkedIn page. However, I strongly advise against clicking any of these links, as they might end up compromising your Facebook account.
On Facebook Messenger, which is one of the private messaging apps owned by Meta, scammers will send the “look who just died” message to users, potentially from friends’ accounts in order to appear more legitimate. It’s kind of like a viral phishing scam that aims to use friends’ accounts to take down accounts for friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, etc.
In this video, I take a look at a number of examples of the “look who just died” scam that I found on Facebook from Messenger in posts that go back several months. A bunch of users have made posts to warn friends and family about the scam. Some of these posts contain screenshots of the scammers in action, which I chose to show in this video.
If any users receive a message that claims someone died 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.
The “look who just died” scam is just one example of a messaging phishing scam. 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.
