Facebook and Twitter Posts Declare Pop Star Adam Ant Dead

A large number of messages circulating on Facebook and Twitter claim that 80’s British pop star Adam Ant is dead as a result of a Jet Ski accident. However, the reports are fake.

All the links contained in the page lead to a fake news site that writes about how Adam Ant died while on a personal vacation in Turks and Caicos.

“Preliminary reports from Turks and Caicos Police officials indicate that the musician struck a concrete boat slip in a marina on Parrot Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Adam Ant was the only passenger on the personal watercraft at the time of the incident. Specific details are not yet available,” reads the fake story.

While there is a disclaimer on the bottom of the page, admitting that the whole website is a fake, it shouldn’t surprise anyone if the ones behind this phony story earn a certain amount of money for each individual that visits the site.

Graham Cluley points out an interesting fact about the site which makes it all ready for a next similar scheme.

The site’s URL begins with the artist’s name and if you change it with your own, the article will say that you’re a musician that died while riding a Jet Ski.

“Always think carefully before believing breaking news that someone has shared with you on the net. If a major news outlet has not confirmed it to be true, it's possible that you could be falling for a confidence trick,” Cluley says.

“Just imagine the harm that could occur if there was malware lying in wait at the end of that salacious news story link?”

And he is perfectly right. These fake stories can always be replaced with a site that serves a nasty bank-account-stealing malware, so try to avoid clicking on random links without checking them out first.