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Cobwebcat said:
Thanks. It was impossible to get on BM at all. Shut out after about 10 seconds each time with congratulations message. Happens quite a bit on BM. Never seen it on any other website before. Is there a softwear weakness in the site?
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There’s not a software weakness. Just occasionally a rogue ad gets into the network and it takes the agency a bit of time to identify where it’s coming from. There’s no security threat to your device though or anything to worry about. It’s just fucking annoying. You can read more about it here:
https://www.howtogeek.com/364944/why-do-websites-redirect-to-fake-“congratulations”-gift-card-pages/
 
Ric said:
There’s not a software weakness. Just occasionally a rogue ad gets into the network and it takes the agency a bit of time to identify where it’s coming from. There’s no security threat to your device though or anything to worry about. It’s just fucking annoying. You can read more about it here:
https://www.howtogeek.com/364944/why-do-websites-redirect-to-fake-“congratulations”-gift-card-pages/
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Quite interesting. Very annoying as you say. This one was particularly bad because 10 seconds wasn’t enough time to tell you about it.

If they’re individually targeted I’m expecting a picture of Mangala’s stupid face throwing millions of pounds in the air :-)
 
Cobwebcat said:
Quite interesting. Very annoying as you say. This one was particularly bad because 10 seconds wasn’t enough time to tell you about it.

If they’re individually targeted I’m expecting a picture of Mangala’s stupid face throwing millions of pounds in the air :-)
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That’s the annoying bit you don’t get time to post there’s a problem, was driving me mad yesterday
 
I thought I was going to post for the first time on here as a victim as I was getting the dreaded 'You've won an iPhone' message on my Android phone via the Google Calendar notification. For anyone getting this it's nothing to do with BM but is a vulnerability in the Google Calendar app that depending on settings can allow outside sources to add events to your calendar (5 times daily in my case :( ). You can use the app on iPhone's in case you think you're safe BTW and have the same issue.

Go to https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r on your computer (log in if necessary) and click on the settings cog.

First, report it as spam by clicking on the event and then on the 3 vertical dots. This will remove all instances of it on your calendar.

Click on 'Automatically Add Invitations' and choose the 'No, only show invitations to which I've responded' Then go to 'View Options', make sure that 'Show Declined Events' is unchecked.

The above is courtesy of https://mashable.com/article/google-calendar-scam/?europe=true
 
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