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Old 01-29-2018, 06:07 PM   #1
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Was just reading “new posts” here on my iPhone while on home WiFi and got an annoying pop up about “Congratulations! Amazon.com user!” see attached screenshot. It seems to be this problem with the forum’s ad networks:

https://www.telapost.com/amazon-user-scam/
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Gosh, that is almost as good as the Nigerian Prince who was going to send me a pair of goats.
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Ive been getting a lot of pop ups on this forum on my iPad for the last month. They are all of the “Congratulations Google User! variety.
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I get those from random news sites but I’ve never had one from this site—of course now I’ll get them here!
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Thanks for the note about this. It does indeed come via ad networks and we've had a heck of a time stamping it out. If you can get a screen shot of the ad or the url of the ad it would be helpful
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