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Bjm0517
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Scam Ad Found while browsing

Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:39 pm

Found one of those 1000 dollar ads that instantly direct you to a scam website, not sure if this may raise alarm or no?

http://imgur.com/zzeI1SM

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Found the photo on my iPhone X if that helps
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Re: Scam Ad Found while browsing

Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:20 pm

Bjm0517 wrote:
Found one of those 1000 dollar ads that instantly direct you to a scam website, not sure if this may raise alarm or no?

http://imgur.com/zzeI1SM

Photo of item found

Found the photo on my iPhone X if that helps


There have been a lot of reports on this happening not just on our network. Not much we can do since it seems to be an Ad service issue. We have tried blocking the ads/links btu they are constantly changing to avoid detection.

A little more info I posted on the site also.

Some more info here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8230496

and

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987

Best Regards,

Vinicius Cruvinel
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LOWS
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Re: Scam Ad Found while browsing

Sat Apr 07, 2018 4:20 pm

Has there been any progress on this? Are you all talking to the ad services?

It's not just on Apple/iOS but also Android 8/Chrome.
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Re: Scam Ad Found while browsing

Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:05 pm

I used this site on a mobile phone without an adblocker and it was virtually impossible to browse for more than 30 seconds without the vibrating ads with popups that only allow you to press "go back."

Its infuriating and makes the site totally unusable.
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Re: Scam Ad Found while browsing

Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:57 pm

I run media type websites and the only way to prevent these types of ads is to completely remove/switch advertising companies. There are many out there, so hopefully Airliners.net switches to another ad provider.
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