Pop Up claiming you are a competition winner on my new blog
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I have just started a new blog and viewers have advised me that a pop up keeps coming up saying ‘congratulations, you have won an iphone’ this is clearly malware or a virus of some sort but I don’t know how to stop it? I have a mac. would be grateful for any help.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Howdy amykraven!
We had a look into the URL we have https://amykraven.wordpress.com/ , there seems no pop up coming up.
It seems to be working fine, is this the URL you are looking for help with? If not please share the URL, we should be able to assist you further.Regards
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Researching further, Staff have confirmed that WordPressdotcom does not serve any pop-up ads, neither in the browser or on mobile. Please see this earlier forum post from Staff.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-pop-up?replies=4#post-2954872
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Hi there! Thank you very much for taking a look, it is that URL.
It doesn’t appear to come up every time you go onto the site and seems to come and go. Someone advised me of the problem and it was only on my third attempt that it popped up?
Just worried that it is a virus as it doesn’t allow you to exit the pop up once it comes up and if clicked on takes you to another site.
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Howdy @justjennifer : Happy weekend..! Had tried to look into with Mobile devices too, seems to be working fine..! Thanks for the additional researches, bookmarked..! Cheers..! :)
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Thanks for this folks. If you’ll get a screenshot of the ads when they’re displayed, we can also investigate that way. But our ads team has confirmed these should not be with our ad network. Hope that helps!
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Hi, it’s just happened again when I went onto my blog! I’ve taken a screen shot how do I upload to show you?
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The message is as follows:
” Sylvanwins.cricket
CONGRATULATIONS APPLE USERYour iPhone has been selected because we need more beta-testers for the new iPhone 8!
Press OK to participate and receive a free iPhone 7 for helping us. “
The pop up doesn’t allow you to exit until you press the ok button which I am reluctant to do!
Thank you for your help with this matter.
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We are trying to get to the bottom of this. Can anyone confirm whether they’ve seen an ad like this on their site in the past few hours?
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This is happening on my blog http://theriffrepeater.com
it seems to only target users in the US (Not in Canada)
It’s only been an issue people have mentioned this month (since the major WP Update)
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