Amazon Gift Card Popup Scam

For me, it happened only with Safari while on MSN.com and only with my iPhone. Downloading Brave browser, helped. I haven’t gotten the pop up since then(on iPhone visiting MSN).

What I believe to work for me is to do the following:

1. Go to settings->safari->clear history and web data

2. Go to Settings->privacy->advertising->reset advertising identifier

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.

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.

ditto.

This is Safari. Apple‘s browser.

I can run Brave, Opera mini and Puffin no problem.

Safari‘s giving me this popup on more sites than weeks ago. Even drudgereport and grizzlycentral among many others.

I don‘t believe for a minute all these disparate websites are infected/corrupted. This is a very recent development, too.

Looks like I‘ll just need to get used to another browser, like I had to stop using iTunes because it scrambled my libraries so much.

Typically, it’s not a popup but a redirect. So, no - popup blocker is not going to work.

Did you clear Safari application data under Advanced ?

Yes. It does not help. I have it on ESPN. Makes it almost unviewable. Have not had the problem with the Private Browsing Web Browser.

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)

I got my SE in December and have been getting these popups ever since. Once every few days on totally random sites. Def seems like a vulnerability of recent iOS. Apple needs to fix their security issues. Resetting safari data does nothing but exit the browser. It just pops back up days later. I’m disturbed by commenters saying it pops up in other apps and came back with Apple restore. It took me forever to restore my phone from old phone. I don’t wanna go that route especially knowing it may be useless. Sounds as if the iOS update itself contained a virus...***?

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.

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.

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.