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.

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!

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.

I do not have an answer but wanted to report I have the same issue. I have cleared browser cache, pop-up blockers are on, fraudulent sites on, hard reset phone after all of this, and have done this multiple times. Pop-up/redirect will not go away. I cleared histories, bookmarks, etc...still nothing. This even happens in private browser mode, and my phone is extremely slow (beyond battery issue). Im starting to come to the conclusion i may need to factory reset phone but would love to not go down that path.

Like the others. Same here. It’s almost regardless of which site I go to and it still re-directs to this god awful scam amazon site.

I’ve done all of the mentioned above, I’ve tried every single main stream legitimate site I can think of and it still keeps happening.

Same as the last poster that stated they’d already done the clearing of all data websites etc. I even have a brand new iPhone 8 and it constantly has this same amazon gift card crap problem. Obviously iPhone has lost its security edge it once enjoyed over Android.

To get rid of the pop up, albeit have to do every time, go to the lower right corner of your screen where the littl boxes are and tap to go to the storage pages of web pages and then tap the “X” to delete the pop up page. Then you can proceed with the entry.

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.

Same here and I don’t know what else to do. Mine is in the google app, and locks up the entire app so I’m forced to close out and restart. I believe it’s happened in the Facebook app too, which makes me fairly certain that it’s on my phone. Also i’m on the same sights on my desktop and have never gotten this popup there. I really don’t want to deal with a factory reset, but it may be time. Clearing history isn’t working.

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

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.

Yes, I tried everything. However, the bad news is that after all the hassle, while it worked for a while, it is back but only showing up on the ESPN website. No problems with any other websites. I punted and started using Chrome with no problem. It must be taking advantage of some flaw in Safari that has not been identified.

Same question here. It happened several times on my iPhone 6. Now I was able to capture the website/URL it redirects to - thanks to the internet filter provided by the wifi provider that warned about the security reputation rating of high risk. It seems to be nextgiftcard.top (it was while reading an article from bbc.com).

I actually have the whole url, had taken a picture of it; it's huge; goes something like this: nextgiftcard.top/us_amazon_amazon500/index.html?voluumdata=deprecated@eda=depre cated@cep= ..... (a lot of characters that takes too much time to type)

Yes, that is it exactly but when I blocked that site, it simply changed the URL. See my previous comments. I tried everything including doing a complete reset of the iPad as a new unit and it still persisted but only on one website ... ESPN and only using Safari. Somehow it must be taking advantage of flaw in Safari.

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.