Who ever does this crap needs to be named and shamed!

Agreed. Very bad and counter productive.

I have heard the Chinese hackers are a huge source for such frauds and actually make a lot of money off it

I hate those, because if you try to navigate away, the pop up a message, "Are you sure you want to navigate away from the page?" More often than not, I have to kill the browser session when that happens.

I just need to download this file and fill in my credit card details? So easy!

@Letmecode Yes! With a jellyfish gun and plenty of ammo!

<3 the hound

back button on Android. <3

I once got a phone interview for a company and when they described the position they said it was for making those toolbars that are inadvertently installed when installing software. I should of hung up the phone right then.

@Letmecode castrated by fish hooks comes to mind as well.

We should string them up by there genitalia as a public warning to others.

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Those companies need to be pursued to the maximum extent of the law, but usually the law doesn't give a s#it...

Sometimes they ask next for your phone number. Elder people get caught in this kind of scam all the time here and ends paying enormous mobile phone bills.

Solution: Government must criminalize misleading popup ads.
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