Within hours,Facebookand Telegram lit up. Zyan Cabrera had done it. ThePhilippinesfinally had its first Winter Olympic gold medal.
Strangers congratulated each other in comment threads. National pride surged. Posts spread like wildfire, each one promising leaked footage, exclusive behind-the-scenes clips, and the full story. Just click here. Verify your age. Watch the triumph.
A fact check byNewsXconfirms what should have been obvious from the start. Zyan Cabrera, who goes by Jerriel Cry4zee online, is not an Olympian. She has never competed in any global sporting event. She posts dance videos and trending challenges on TikTok. The entire gold medal story was fabricated by criminals who understood something simpler than any sophisticated hacking technique: wrap a lie in patriotism and people will click first, question later.
The fraudsters used the gold medalist tag as an SEO hook to slip past spam filters. It worked brilliantly. Thousands of people handed over their Facebook,Instagramand Telegram credentials to fake login pages, thinking they were about to watch history. Their accounts belonged to someone else within minutes.
Timing explains everything. The 2026 Winter Olympics opened on 6 February, flooding search engines with Olympic queries. Scammers hijacked that traffic by attaching the 'Gold Medalist' keyword to Cabrera's name.
But timing alone does not account for the emotional potency. The Philippines competes in the Winter Olympics with a skeleton crew. A handful of athletes in alpine skiing and figure skating. Medals remain elusive. The country has never won one, not in any colour, not at any Winter Games. Which makes the dream of that first gold not just aspirational but deeply felt.
Cybersecurity analysts atLatestLYbroke down the mechanics. Posts paired innocent clips of Cabrera dancing, stolen from her public TikTok, with blurred explicit thumbnails. The combination suggested scandal. Links promised the 'full video'. There was no video. The phishing pages deployed malware that scraped contact lists, lifted browser credentials, and infiltrated everything connected to that login. Hijacked profiles then messaged friends requesting emergency money or spreading the scam further. Self-replicating. Efficient.
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Cabrera herself had nothing to do with any of it. According toBollywood Life, she creates the sort of content typical of Gen Z influencers. Dance videos, emotional short clips, AI-edited visuals, trending challenges. She has no connection to professional sports or the Olympics. The gold medalist label attached to her name is completely fabricated.
Imagine waking up to discover your face has been plastered across a massive fraud operation. That your name now autocompletes to 'scandal' and 'leaked video.' That millions of people associate you with something you had no part in creating. There is no official verified account of Cabrera speaking publicly about this. Silence often proves the safest strategy when your name has been weaponised.
Source: International Business Times UK
