The link arrives in your feed looking like something you can't ignore. Grainy thumbnail. Sensational caption. The promise of scandal. It tags a young Filipina influencer as a 'Gold Medalist' caught in a leaked video. You might hesitate for a second, but curiosity usually wins.
What's floodingFacebookand Telegram right now isn't a viral scandal. It's a coordinated phishing campaign built to hijack accounts, steal login credentials, and exploit the timing of the 2026Winter Olympics. The supposed subject,Zyan Cabrera(also known online as Jerriel Cry4zee), isn't an Olympian. She's not the star of any leaked footage. She's a digital content creator whose name and image have been turned into weapons by scammers betting on confusion, curiosity, and sloppy digital habits.
What makes this scam particularly nasty is how well it's designed. By latching onto legitimate search interest around the Winter Olympics, these malicious links slip past spam filters and pop up in feeds right next to real news.
The bait follows a familiar playbook: innocent social media clips of Cabrera dancing, paired with blurred or suggestive thumbnails that seem to promise something explicit. There is no video. There never was.
Posts appear from pages with generic names like 'Random Post' or from hijacked personal accounts that already fell for the trap. When you click the link, it doesn't take you to a video player. Instead, you land on a fake Facebook login page designed to steal usernames and passwords. Some versions prompt you to download what looks like a video codec or media player. That software? It's malware.
Once they have your credentials, your account turns into a weapon. It starts tagging your friends in the same scam posts, spreading the trap to everyone you know. The malware works in the background, quietly harvesting saved passwords, scraping through your browser history, and breaking into linked accounts likeInstagram.
The scammers didn't pick 'Gold Medalist' by accident. They knew that in February 2026, millions of people would be looking up Olympic news. By slapping that keyword onto Cabrera's name, they manipulated search engines and social feeds to make their scam appear in real search results. It's called 'news hijacking'—you time your scam to match a big event, then let the natural search traffic do the work.
How do you catch these traps before walking into them? There are telltale signs, but you have to actually pause and pay attention.
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This isn't a one-off situation. Cabrera's case looks exactly like otherscams that have targeted influencers such as Alina Amir and Arohi Mim, where scammers used their names in identical phishing schemes. The pattern repeats across countries and platforms with alarming success.
Source: International Business Times UK
