Many
iPhone 11 Pro 6s/7 and iPhone 8, iPhone X,11 Pro Max user are seeing a pop up scam while browsing
different websites on their iPhone safari browser. The issues is even reported
with latest iPhone models like iPhone 11 Pro Max, XR,XS MAX, 8/X with iOS 14/11. The pop up scam keep
getting a popup in Safari stating that user have won an Amazon gift card etc.
The scam pop say like “Apple user
... you have won an Amazon
card”. and sometimes pop up message is like " congratulation Amazon user ...".Pop-up/redirect will not go away
and is continuously happening. Pop up has a "close" button, but if
you click on it or anywhere on the screen, it will take you to the scam site
where it asks to answer stupid questions for a chance to win fake prizes. This
even happens in private browser mode, and phone is extremely slow. The
amazon/gift card scam pop issue is regardless of which site is opened and even
happening with Yahoo email links, Facebook on safari etc.
iPhone
users have tried with the Popup Blocker on along with the Fraudulent Website
warning on, cleared browser cache, pop-up blockers are on, hard reset phone,
but after all of this nothing seems to help to remove this pop issue. But it’s
not a popup but a redirect. So, no -
popup blocker is not going to work. Many users even tried to download antivirus
but did not seems to work all the time.
Actually
this spamy ads that hijack your browser through deep linking. Clearing browser
cache and restarting Safari or Chrome won't help. It can be due to poorly coded
websites or website owner not paying attention to what is being published on
their website. Resulting letting web browser exposed to many threats to store
malicious data for such pop issue.
However you may try below solution to fix the pop up issue on iPhone:
Fix 1: Clear
websites data
Goto
to the safari Settings in your iPhone—>safari—>advanced—>website
data—>search and delete the site there or clear them all out. Delete
anything suspect, such as unknown domains, ad-sites, anything from yahoo or
yimg, domains with random characters. This should stop this pop up.
Fix 2: Delete
website pop up pages
Go
to the lower right corner of your screen where the little boxes are and tap to
go to the storage pages of web pages and then tap the “X” to delete the pop up
page. You have to do every time you see this issue. But this should stop and
linked pop up to specific websites.
Fix 3: Use Brave Browser
Go
to Apple Appstore and install browser called Brave. It works with most of
websites fine, but automatically blocks a lot of offensive website/spams. You can
try this and see if it helps to stop such issues.
Download it here :
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Comments
It seems that the way that this works is that the Amazon popup is the top page in the browser. So when you re-open the browser, it grabs the hack web page from a server and displays it.
Here is a simple way to get around this:
1) Close the browser.
2) Settings, Airplane Mode On (all Internet access will be turned off)
- This prevents the browser from getting the code that displays the popup
3) Open the browser
4) Enter a new URL in the URL bar and hit enter (or just close the tab that created the popup).
5) Settings, Airplane Mode Off (Internet access back on)
6) Continue browsing