One of the most frequent problems is that of scam advertisements, the maximum expression of which is the sudden appearance of a web page or a popup that warns the user of having won! Usually, this page is festive, with a variable message that can be: " Congratulations, you have won! " Or " You have been selected " or " Congratulations, you are the millionth visitor ", " You have won an iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy " and so on. The popup is often also personalized and even if it does not write our name, it can understand where we are connected, with which internet provider (it may be that the message speaks of a loyalty reward to Fastweb customers), with which type of computer or smartphone, with which browser and from which search engine (in the figure above there is a clearly fake prize from Google). There may also be fake comments below that try to make the payout page look real. The worst part is that they often have a button to press to redeem the prize that can lead to participate in a survey, to fill in personal data or to download a file that is always malware.
Before understanding if it is possible to remove this type of message, it is important to note that it is always, without a shadow of a doubt and without exception, a scam . There is no possibility that a website can give us something by pure chance just for clicking a link. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't and in this case it isn't one hundred percent.What are the "Congratulations you won!" "> You Won" pop-ups in your phone or computer browser is not related to malware . There is, therefore, no problem with the phone or with the web browser, the problem, however, is the web page or link that was clicked. Inside that site that was being viewed, there was some code that led to the new page with the scam message. This is the typical " redirect ", that is, the automatic loading of another page compared to the original one.
Before understanding if it is possible to remove this type of message, it is important to note that it is always, without a shadow of a doubt and without exception, a scam . There is no possibility that a website can give us something by pure chance just for clicking a link. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't and in this case it isn't one hundred percent.