Pop-Up Scams Of The Day
from the they're-everywhere dept
It seems like every day there's some new scam happening online, so to make life easier, today I'll put two together for the price of one. What a deal. First, the state of California is suing a software company in New Jersey for creating a scam where they tricked people into installing software that generated pop up ads - that were actually disconnecting your internet connection and dialed into an expensive $4.99/minute phone line. Meanwhile, less nefarious, but still quite annoying are claims that AOL tricked people into signing up for multiple accounts, by sending them confusing pop up ads that people accidentally clicked through. I guess this is part of AOL's strategy to replace the advertising money they lost when they dropped third party pop up ads and replaced them with AOL pop ups instead. There aren't many details in the article, but I'm wondering why you would send a pop up to someone who is, clearly, already a subscriber asking them if they want to buy another AOL account?
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