How can I get rid of a Congratulations-you-won.com-yourprize.com pop up window on my iPad? It wants me to answer ok but I'm afraid it is a virus.

Thanks for that. I was stupid enough to click "ok" to get Safari to work again (should have done a search before that, stupid I know) and was worried that some harm was done. However, I closed the tab after clicking on the "ok button" and didn't provide any information whatsoever.

wwhen you are just surfing use private mode it protects you better. you will not have things added to you history or website data. also go to safari and open your advanced section and look at your website data. edit it by deleting any thing that looks like it needs to go away.

So all this time you're saying your wife's phone isn't affected because you have never visited the same website using her phone? That makes sense. Now I'm thinking the website is the source of the problem. Have you contacted the website administrator to let them know about the problem? Btw, it is a javascript. It does nothing but annoys visitors.

You're welcome ... glad you didn't fall for their scam.

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Many thanks for the suggested Fix. I tried your method, twice, but I still have exactly the same problem. Do you have any further suggestions or advice?

Thanks

Stay away from pornographic websites and you won't get the issue.

Thanks! This helped me too!

I am having the same trouble -- Congratulations you won etc, but I was not using Safari. Is there something I can do if I was using Chrome?

Highly unlikely if your phone isn't jailbroken. It's the link (to a website) in Facebook that is making it happen.

There is a solution on the first page. Did you read that and Clear History and Website Data?

The problem is not the contact but the info. Airplane mode simply turns off the contact.....same as leaving site and closing tab.

How on earth do I do that? I clear my cookies and browser history after every one of these attacks and it doesn't stop them from happening within a few hours. CBS News, NYT, The Hill, ZeroHedge, are the main culprits, but it can happen anywhere with advertisements.

I think I may have found a solution. Try this.....

Settings --> Safari --> Advanced - scroll down to the bottom and turn off the "JavaScript" option - now I have everything off under "Advanced" (which is ironic in a disappointing way - having advanced features that are unusable).

Issue: Besides phone calls and texting, I mostly use my iPhone for finance and job researching - no ****, no FB nor other social media. When I went to my IPhone's 'Stocks' icon, as i having been doing most days for years without any problem, I check various stocks on "Finance_Yahoo_Com" and browse their articles to see how they (and the economy) are doing. Yesterday evening I started getting the so called "Congratulations Apple User...Amazon Gift Card...." notice (from "Free-Award_Com") with no way of getting out of it - except their deceptive "close" option that brings you to the Free A.... web site. This is after browsing articles from the usual standard financial sites (Accesswire, GlobalNewsWire, MarketRealist, etc.) that are listed on Finance_Yahoo.

I lacked the time to deal with it Sunday night and would try fixing it today. Today was the same thing, any finance article quickly brought that message so I was unable to read any article, also unable to search Safari, as the message kept appearing about 2 or 3 seconds after opening the page. I spent several hours trying different options until turning off the JavaScript option which stopped it for me, I can now browse (AND READ) any finance article nows and have done so for the past hour with no issue.

I went to my Mac and searched the web for solutions but the suggestions were of no help (clear your history / website data and reboot, etc.) but the problem still occurred.

What I tried:

- Went to Settings --> News and turned off most of the settings (notifications, cellular data, show previews, etc) "features" (I found this annoying anyways, so I am glad these are off).

- Went to Settings --> Safari and turned most of these off too (search engine suggestions, safari suggestions, etc.).

- I then selected "Clear history and website data' then powered down the iPhone and brought it back up. Went back to yahoo's stocks icon, selected the same articles and the same problem continued.

Solution: I gave it one last try, went to Settings --> Safari --> and scrolled all the way down to "Advanced" and turned off "JavaScript" (everything else was off), went back to yahoo's stocks icon, selected the same articles and the problem is gone! I could finally read the financial articles again!

I wrote this up and saved it as a draft in my email account - just in case a friend needs it - and thought I would share here as well.

Hope this fixes it for you!