The woman in the grainy thumbnail looks like an Olympic champion in disgrace. Gold medal ribbon. Blurred-out bed. A headline promising a 'full leaked video' if you just tap one more link.
For thousands of Filipinos scrolling late at night, that image has been enough to override common sense. Curiosity wins. They click. And, unseen in the background, someone else quietly wins too — the scammer who just harvested another password, another device, another life to exploit.
Over the past week, two names have been relentlessly pushed into Filipino social media feeds: 'Pinay gold medallist'Zyan Cabreraand Siargao-based creator Vera Hill, better known to fans as 'ChiChi.' On the surface, both appear to be at the centre of sex-tape scandals. In reality, they are at the centre of something colder and more calculated: a pair of highly engineered cyber cons built on lies, stolen identities and weaponised search trends.
The myth around Zyan Cabrera has been crafted with almost cynical precision.
Posts onFacebook,Instagram, X and Telegram claim that Cabrera — who goes by the handle Jerriel Cry4zee — is a Filipina Olympic gold medallist caught in an 'obscene couple bed' video with her boyfriend. The framing is shameless: national pride twisted into voyeuristic bait. 'Pinay gold medalist bold video,' 'full leaked MMS clip,' 'uncut scandal' — the wording is designed to trip every human impulse and every search engine trigger at once.
Panoorin🤳🤳 jerriel cry4zee viral Crazee🔔🔔🔔,,🇵🇭Binabanggit ang zyan cabrera a.k.a jerriel cy4zee...Part 2 and 3 napanuod kona hahaha😅... Gold medallist Philippines Ito bayon 👀,🤳🤳 Tingnan ang video sa mga komento🤘pic.twitter.com/d8jLgEYLFW
There is one small problem. None of it is true.
A basic fact-check — the kind anyone could do, but few bothered to before sharing — shows no record of Cabrera in any Olympic database. No entries in international sports results. No medals, no events, nothing. She is not an Olympian. She has not competed in, let alone won, a global sporting competition.
Instead, Cabrera appears to be a Filipino online content creator whose name and face have been hijacked at a very convenient moment: the 2026 Winter Olympics. Scammers timed their campaign to coincide with the Games, slapping on the 'gold medalist' label as an SEO crowbar to shove their hoax into the top of Google and social feeds whenever people searched for real Olympic news.
It worked. For a while, anyone typing in terms related to 'Pinay gold medal' risked being funnelled towards click-trap pages promising her 'full video' — pages that had no sporting relevance whatsoever, but plenty of malicious intent.
Source: International Business Times UK
