"Four signs of a heart attack" scam

[Sid's Dad]

I don't normally look at the crappy ads at the bottom of the page on PH, but one kept coming up and I thought I'd take a quick look. "Four signs of a heart attack" it says, and goes on to mention the signs your body gives you to indicate an imminent heart attack.

Cue loads of waffle but no mention of what the four signs actually are. You have to watch the video. Turns out its 34 minutes long, and after ten minutes with still no mention of the four signs (but plenty about clicking on orange buttons to subscribe blah blah) I think 'bks to that!' And click off. But before going I note the name of the 'eminent heart surgeon' - Chauncey Crandall. Professor Google then points me to a dozen websites exposing this as a cheap scam.

Does anyone else have experience of being misled or scammed by advertisers on PH? Or do you just ignore the ads completely?

[Sid's Dad]

Steffan said:

I have no doubt PH and Haymaret do all they can to weed these out. Regrettably I suspect such scam emails are a real difficulty currently for PH etc and they are doing their best. At the moment these scammers are very difficult to address effectively. My personal IT motto is "If it looks too good or promises too much, then its a scam.

But it's not an email. It's an advert. A paid for advert. PH takes these people's money so they can plague us with misleading nonsense.