Brad Pitt is very much alive, but if you clicked on an article that claimed he committed suicide after his divorce from Angelina Jolie, your phone could soon be dead.

Facebook is warning its users that a scam article is being circulated which claims that Pitt has died.

The article shows a black and white picture of Pitt with long hair and the words ‘R.I.P Brad Pitt’ written on it.

It also attempts to make itself look like it’s coming from FOX News by putting a FOX News banner below the image and the flag ‘BREAKING NEWS’ next to it.

The title of the article says: ‘FOX BREAKING NEWS: BRAD PITT found dead (SUICIDE).’

Clicking the link took users to a redirect page, which appeared to be FOX News.

It actually led users to an app that could access their data.

Those who bypassed the redirect page were able to see a few lines of the hoax story.

‘Brad Pitt, 52, a multiawarded American actor and husband of Angelina Jolie, 41, shot himself in the head at a shooting range on Sunday.

‘He was under significant stress because the couple “were going through a divorce and he had a history of depression”, sources have said,’ the hoax site purported.

Shortly after Pitt’s divorce from Jolie was made public, the link began making the rounds.

Snopes.com claims the first known date of the hoax was on September 21.

Taking advantage of people’s curiosity about the split, the malware was circulated, which aims to track personal information from phones and computers.

The hoax site has also run false articles about the deaths of Vin Diesel, Nicolas Cage, Jaden Smith, Jim Carrey, Sylvester Stallone and John Cena.

Just last month, they ran a similar hoax story about Angelina Jolie dying.

If someone falls for the hoax, their Facebook information is subjected to being obtained by the hackers.

Facebook suggests changing Facebook passwords and running its malware scanner if users have already clicked the link.