Amazon Gift Card Popup Scam

Had the same one. Clearing cache, data, whatev didn’t help. Pop up blockers also didn’t stop it.

Fixed mine by going to the safari Settings—safari—advanced—website data—search and delete the site there or clear them all out.

“Fixed mine by going to the safari Settings—safari—advanced—website data—search and delete the site there or clear them all out.” I found this on here and as of now. It worked for me.

Clear website data.

It worked for me.

Settings > Safari > clear history and website data

or

Settings > Safari > Advanced > website data. Then delete anything suspect, such as unknown domains, ad-sites, anything from yahoo or yimg, domains with random characters (see unknown domains above), etc.

we are talking about the persistent ”Apple user ... you have won an Amazon card” browser hijacking ad.

After “chatting” with an awesome Apple customer support rep I was advised to download a content blocker from the App Store. I chose Norton Ad Blocker and voila, NO. MORE. POP-UPS!! I’ve placed this on my iPhone and husbands and we are now pop up free. Hope this helps.

This is not your iPhone, browser or even the website's publisher - it's spamy ads that hijack your browser through deep linking. Clearing browser cache and restarting Safari or Chrome won't help.

Many websites use third-party advertisement networks to bring in the revenue, and the ad networks deliver ads based on your browsing history (via cookies or link tracking - think FB likes, tweets, insta, etc. buttons) and browser profile (you'd be surprised how identifiable you are just by the settings in your browser, your IP address and OS configuration). The website's publisher most likely isn't even aware of what's being advertised on their website and even less so that some of the ads are redirecting their visitors to fake sites...

Unfortunately, prevention has to happen on the server side - not your phone. And likely the only thing *you* can do is advise the website's owner - capture the screen you've been redirected to and provide any additional observations that could be relevant, like the page URL you were on, how long it took before you got presented with the "popup", etc. The owner could escalate it to their ad agency and possibly identify the spammer and block them, install a scanner on their web servers that inspects ads for redirects, etc. You could also disable JavaScript in your Safari settings but that would make most websites unusable.

Good luck!

Finally found the fix! I have had this problem forever and the only way to get it to stop was to install the app 1Blocker. I bought the premium version because I wanted to make sure it worked right. I have had it installed for a few days and haven’t had one scam pop up yet. Every time I’d go to ESPN, any news site, or meme site I’d get those annoying pop ups, but all is well now.

Had the same problem, and tried all the suggestions, (clear history, clear website data, reset advertising identity), and none of them worked for even a second. Right now, to test if the problem really goes away, just go to The Weather Channel website (!!), wait for the banner ad to load, and see if the pop up appears.

What finally worked for me is installing AdBlock Plus (ABP). Installed it, and enabled it as Safari’s content blocker, then the problem went away, for real.

I assume other ad blocker works too, but I’ve been using ABP on PC/MAC for a long time, and I like their funding model....

This just popped up on my iPad mini right after I loaded the latest iOS. A real nasty one because it could not be removed by closing Safari since it locked up the browser. Clearing the Safari cache did no good. It also must have been embedded into the iCloud backup because I did a complete reset of the iPad and even restored from an iCloud backup that was done several weeks before the problem started showing up. Somehow installing the latest operating system initiated the problem. The only way I could find to remove it was to set up the iPad as a new iPad and clean out the iCloud backup and restore everything manually. That solved the problem. I've never seen anything quite that nasty before.

I think I found an answer, I copied the pop up link and in Settings>general>restrictions > enable>websites >limit access I pasted link. So far ok, but who knows

Go to App store and install browser called Brave. It works with most of websites, but blocks a lot of nasty things

I downloaded Brave browser per another poster’s suggestion and so far it’s helped

It won’t happen if you disable Javascript on Settings, but it is very inconvenient cause a lot of buttons on the web are Java. This is a continuing problem

This is a deeper issue that’s potentially malicious. The code is causing a crash of safari where new tabs or the browser itself are failing. This happens for the amazon gift card site and I have to restart safari before it works normally again, even if I had closed the tab with the gift card offer. Like posted, it is the site hosting it that’s to blame, but I’m very afraid it could be executing some code it shouldn’t, such as buffer overflow type attacks. Anytime JavaScript can render the browser inoperable and effect other tabs I would be worried. Things go weird, such as an inability to go to new sites from new tabs, sometimes just that tab (entering a new url does nothing). It’s breaking safari but not causing it to be killed. This does not happen on the iPhone chrome app, which means it’s looking specifically for safari on an iPhone headers and ignoring chrome, and would give credence to the theory that it could be malicious code attacking a specific safari vulnerability. iOS 11.1 iPhone 7 Plus.

See the first posters description. There is nothing you can do to solve this. The issues is the advertising mechanisms and lax security on the website you are going to or one that is linked to . A site with a lot of ads will likely have 100s of links to other sites supplying the advertising. Somewhere deep in that web is the offending spammer

Agree with all the previous answers, just want to drive the point home: PLEASE contact the originating website (if they are trustworthy) and tell them about this. The more people do it, the more pressure on the offender's middleman (who is also an offender, in my opinion).

Here's my form letter, feel free to plagiarize:

Hello,

I landed on your website via Google search on my iPhone's Safari browser, and barely got ___ seconds to look at the content when it was hijacked by an Amazon popup scam which claimed that I had won $1000 in Amazon gift cards. My phone's browser then became unusable and I could not return to your site. This is a common problem for iPhone users, however you should find out which of your advertisers is causing this, because it makes iPhone users unable to view your content.

Thanks,

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