From what we can tell, these death hoaxes aren't just about fooling people. Social media posts spreading the false rumors contain links to websites that appear to host malware.
Alan Jackson performs onstage at"The 56th Annual CMA Awards" at Bridgestone Arena on Nov. 09, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. In late November and early December 2022, we received emails from readers that asked us if American country music singer Alan Jackson was dead. We traced the claim to a death hoax in multiple Facebook posts, one of which read,"5 minutes ago, we report extremely sad news 64-year-old singer Alan Jackson, goodbye Alan Jackson.
There was no truth to this. Jackson was not dead, nor was there any credible reporting that indicated he was sick or being treated in a hospital.about another death hoax involving film actor Bruce Willis. In fact, at the time, we included Jackson's name in our story after we noticed both death hoaxes were going around on the same websites.
Since our writing of the Willis story, readers continued to email us about the Jackson death hoax. For that reason, we are publishing this story about Jackson. While looking into this very similar death hoax for the country music star, we noticed once again that the same people who pushed the death hoax about Willis were accidentally including Jackson's name in the caption of posts about the actor, and vice versa, as can be seen in the following two Facebook post screenshots.Meanwhile, this post shows Willis' image but mentions Jackson in the caption above.wasn't just to fool people.
For example, the websites linked in the Facebook posts asked if we'd like to install Adobe Flash Player. This was a red flag, as Flash had beenThese websites also misleadingly claimed to offer an update for the Opera GX web browser, as we previouslyWe copied the links in the posts and scanned them with IP Quality Score's free malicious URLThe hoaxes for Jackson, Willis, and Cowell were all pushed on the same websites.
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