DO NOT PRESS “ALLOW” ON THIS WEBSITE

[bcli4tech]

Hi everyone, today I wanted to go on wattpad. But I made a mistake so I wrote the website url “www.******.com”. It started redirecting to multiple websites, so I closed the tab immediately. Then I went to my search history and previewed the website. Guess what it was, a fake Apple website saying that I had “Trojan Spyware” on my iPad. I knew it was fake right away. The chat button was fake, but then I saw the phone number, which I verified on the internet, was fake. But I looked up phone number identifier, and it was not registered. I just want to let you know that misspelling websites can lead to scams. Please report if you found suspicious and malicious websites. Have a great day.

Also, here’s a picture of the website preview to give you an idea:

 

[DarkPremiumCho]

What do we got here...a dll on an Apple device. What's this, a crossover episode?

 

[retta283]

There are so many things wrong with this, I am dumbfounded as to where to begin (as usual). Some of these scams are simply laughable, sadly people do fall for them.

 

[laptech]

so this is the Apple scam version of the Windows scam version that people get from time to time. I still get them occasionally, a news website will automatically direct me to another website which opens a full page browser window saying my computer has been hacked or a virus has been detected and to click 'allow' to get the virus removed. Clicking 'allow' just run's an script or an executable file that puts all sorts of virus stuff on the computer. My father had one a number of years ago, he was browsing model train websites, he must have clicked on a fake one because he said this warning page come up telling him he had a virus, he clicked on the 'allow' to get rid of it and it put a virus on his machine that encrypted all his pictures. He lost thousands of them, many of them precious family pictures.

This type of scam has been doing the rounds for years. It is how trojans get into people's computers.

 

[bcli4tech]

There are so many things wrong with this, I am dumbfounded as to where to begin (as usual). Some of these scams are simply laughable, sadly people do fall for them.

I don’t know how they fall for it even though it’s obvious that it’s fake.

 

[I7guy]

Always a good reminder to have situational awareness when browsing the internet. On my desktop I do 99% of my browsing on a Linux vm with Firefox and a vpn.

 

[stradify]

Just out of curiosity...what's the other 1%?

 

[I7guy]

Windows desktop to known sites .5%. Usually when files have to be moved back and forth. Although I could move the files into the vm or establish a share, path of least resistance. iPhone or iPad the remainder.

 

[stradify]

Thank you.

 

[rpmurray]

I'd get this occasionally when I visit porn educational websites. I've found that a good ad-blocker will screen most of that.

 

[bcli4tech]

I'd get this occasionally when I visit porn educational websites. I've found that a good ad-blocker will screen most of that.

I mean, these kinds of websites are mostly full of scammy links knowing that a lot of people go on it and click it. I’ve never visited them but they sure look sus…

 

[Solomani]

There are so many things wrong with this, I am dumbfounded as to where to begin (as usual). Some of these scams are simply laughable, sadly people do fall for them.

He made a simple spelling mistake.... and it redirected the OP to malicious websites.

It happens.

 

[retta283]

He made a simple spelling mistake.... and it redirected the OP to malicious websites.

It happens.

I think you misunderstand my point, I was trying to say that there are many things wrong with the fake webpage itself. It would not be the first time if it had happened to me instead.