“I Brittany Maynard decided to end my life on Nov 1st” is the Social Post that is going viral since last Thursday. This particular post aims to lead the user to a new fake page, www.brittanymaynard.com, where they can share and comment, in an attempt to help Brittany Maynard not “commit suicide”.
However, this page has no relation to the 29-year-old Brittany, who indeed captured public opinion and social media earlier in October when she announced that she would end her life because of a serious illness she suffers from.
But the goal, once again, of those behind this is to exploit this human story and make the post, as well as the website “ brittanymaynard.com” , as popular as possible , with the comments and shares of unsuspecting users. Their ultimate goal is to trick users into downloading and installing programs or filling out support forms, in order to steal their account details.
It requires great caution when we encounter such social posts and we must not trust the links that direct us and the forms that appear for us to fill out.
We can see Brittany's message and her struggle on the official website https://www.thebrittanyfund.org/.
