Fake evite captcha leads to jewelry site

A reddit report about a phishing scam that cost someone Amount not specified. Learn how to avoid falling victim.

Hello, my sister's email was hacked and sent out an evite email to all her contacts. I'm on my iPhone, clicked the link, and it took me to a captcha, not the typical one that I see. Not sure why I thought that and continued but unfortunately, I did. I entered the letters and submitted, after that it sent me to a jewelry site and I realized this was probably a scam. I closed the site and that was it. Since then I have changed my email password. Luckily the old password was not a reused one, so I didn't change any other passwords. I checked all my sign-in activity and didn't notice anything suspicious, but I still ended all sessions. On top of that, I have always had 2FA and other security factors up to date on my Google account. I have McAfee, so I ran a scan on my phone and it didn't find anything, and I didn't see anything suspicious in my downloads.... Am I all good? Did completing that captcha give them access to my information?

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