San Pedro Sula, Honduras
A screenshot circulating on social networks and WhatsApp shows an alleged article attributed to Diario LA PRENSA in which it reports that the late chef Sandra Díaz del Valle promoted an investment platform in order to generate monetary profits.
This content is fake. LA PRENSA has not published any article related to that platform on its website. It is, in reality, a digital impersonation for scam (or phishing) purposes.
This method consists of creating fake pages that imitate legitimate sites to obtain users’ personal and banking information.
“The Last Lesson from Chef Sandra Díaz del Valle,” literally says the headline of the journalistic piece that goes viral on Facebook and WhatsApp.
Honduran chef Sandra Díaz del Valle died on June 10, 2026 in Tegucigalpa, the same day she turned 46.
According to preliminary information, Díaz del Valle began to experience physical discomfort after undergoing a cosmetic procedure at a private medical center. Subsequently, her health condition worsened and she was referred to the Teaching Hospital, where she was admitted without vital signs.
After the death, the Directorate of Forensic Medicine classified initially considered the case as a death of undetermined cause and ordered the performance of a medical-legal autopsy to scientifically establish the causes of death.
On June 11, the Public Ministry reported that he had initiated proceedings to clarify the circumstances of the death. As part of the investigations, prosecutors and investigation agents collected documentation and other elements of interest at the healthcare center where Díaz del Valle received medical care.
To date, authorities have not released an official cause of death and the case remains under investigation.
It’s an impersonation
A search in the website from LA PRENSA did not carry the article promoting the investment platform related to chef Sandra Díaz del Valle.
Although visually similar, the fraudulent site does not use the official LA PRENSA domain (laprensa.hn). Instead, it uses an apocryphal address: zunvirexal.com
The Whois tool made it possible to know the registration date of this domain, created more than a month ago, on June 17, 2026, while the legitimate LA PRENSA site was created on January 1, 2000.
Furthermore, the content presents several inconsistencies that do not coincide with the usual format of LA PRENSA notes.
For example, the headline appears below the main image, the article lacks a footer and the font used does not correspond to that used by the medium in its publications.
Likewise, the fake page contains a form that requests name, surname, email and banking information, which confirms that it is a digital scam or phishing, as LA PRENSA Verifica has clarified on previous occasions.
In any case, an editor of the brand confirmed that LA PRENSA did not prepare that article and that it is not their authorship.
Therefore, LA PRENSA did not publish an article in which chef Sandra Díaz del Valle promoted an investment platform.
