today i accessed the site from my phone. along the upper margin was an envelope symbol suggesting i had mail / PM--i opened it. seems i may have won an i-pad. i just needed to tick a few boxes. finally it said i was now being billed £4-50 a month till i texted stop to a number--which obviously i did,--this was acknowleged. anyone else seen this ?
The phone number gets billed through the server. Pay as you go or contract is irrilevant. You have been scàmmed. Very clever ploy. They should be whipped to an inch of their lives
I've just checked on a mobile browser and I can see anything at the top of the screen, but as an admin we don't generally see adverts, tricky one to test.
i agree--but the way it was displayed i really thought it was connected with this site--nowhere was it suggested a monthly fee was involved--just a short series of simple click the box exercises--after the last one--" what is an ipad"--the next page told me i would be billed £4-50 a month to use the "service" untill i texted stop to another number--which i did.
Do you think by texting stop to another number that that will be the end of it, hope so? Very crafty these people, its probably borderline legal what they are doing.
It wasn't our site as we do not have adverts of any kind. You must have connected to us through free WI-FI somewhere, by registering for it. Those registrations do my head in, as I start getting all sort of spam for a while.
So, the only way they got any personal information is by texting STOP? They now have your phone number and could, possibly, send you chargeable texts! BTW, was the number you texted a short or a standard number? If it was a short code you have probably already been scammed by being charged an exorbitant price for the text! Best to avoid seeing adverts altogether as they are often a source of malware, not just bogus advertisers. Try Adblock, Adblock Plus or Adguard on Desktops and laptops. For Android phones use Firefox with the Adblock Plus add-on.
i was at another place--where i usually connect to the hub there--but it must have been switched off00so my phone connected to 3g--cant think of any other explanation. hang on--i'm at home now--my phone is connected to my own hub----and i'm getting the same row of icons ---below the words--home--forums
my phone is a microsort lumia windows 8 phone. can anyone else access the site from their phone and see if they get the same display it REALLY does look as if its part of this site !!!!
This site does have third-party adverts, no doubt about that as I can see them if I turn off the ad-blocker. I also recall Sean saying that the advertising revenue paid for the site. Ghostery is telling me that this site gets adverts via Google Adsense.
There are ads that appear to non staff members Dom. But I agree that it could be something that put a frame round the entire site.
Mine is a Lumia 1020 running the latest Windows Phone 8.1 and I've not seen anything like that bigmac.
When did you install your last App BigMac? Maybe you can determine when you first noticed those (non BF) ads and the last app/update as the phone may have been compromised possibly? I don't know if MS Apps are vetted prior to them being displayed on their store (indeed if you can install non-store apps), Jim will answer that.
Windows phone is very secure, everything is very isolated from everything else, this is purely a mobile browser issue, I am a bit concerned about this and will investigate as much as I can.
