Security News > 2020 > December > “Is it you in the video?” – don’t fall for this Messenger scam
This scam goes even further - whether as a distraction to buy a bit of time before victims realise they've been taken in and rush to change their Messenger passwords, or simply to give the crooks a second bite at the cherry, we don't know.
After entering your password, there's a short delay, as you might expect whan logging in to any online service, after which the crooks seem to pick from a range of other scams and redirect you to one of them randomly.
Adding a second factor of authentication means that the crooks can't phish your password alone and then access your account.
Get into your account as soon as you can, assuming you can still access it, and change your password right away so the old password is useless to the criminals.
Password managers help in many ways: you automatically get a different password for every site; you get passwords that are random and can't be guessed; it's faster to change your password if you do get hacked; and it's much harder to get phished because your password manager won't put the right password into the wrong site.