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I've seen this latching on to other websites and wonder if the perpetrators, who are well known, have managed somehow to get the PH hamsters drunk?
ETA the computer at TB Towers is as likely as not to be implicated but the use of Pistonheads.com for profit by another organisation is very naughty.
Edited by turbobloke on Friday 5th August 10:41
Stuart said:
Where did you see that Turbobloke?
It 'launched itself' in IE while I was posting on PH using Firefox, having seen it launch from other sites and after some research I knew what the game was before it appeared this time on PH. The perps are well known and based in the Netherlands iirc.turbobloke said:
It 'launched itself' in IE while I was posting on PH using Firefox, having seen it launch from other sites and after some research I knew what the game was before it appeared this time on PH. The perps are well known and based in the Netherlands iirc.
Great, thanks. It doesn't sound like something which is coming in through any of our Hamster systems, but I'll report it to our ad ops team nonetheless.There is apparently small print somewhere, as always, telling the scammed competition entrants how much the text messages that they're about to get will cost, and acknowledging no link to the name or brand host site they are parasitically infesting in some way, in spite of the appearance to the contrary from the page that appears - this is clearly a key step in getting people to go along and have their money removed give their mobile number as part of the competition process...the ticking clock is another key part of the catch as it will make some people act without thinking too much, to beat the short deadline.
Stuart said:
Podie said:
I had a pop-up earlier for something, but closed it. Wasn't the same. No other pages open in IE.
Yep, we know about the pop up. If we could just catch the critter, we'd kill it...ETA hang on.....is there a whiff of a rodent around here?!
Edited by turbobloke on Friday 5th August 12:59
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A friend of my dads is a retired BT engineer and he set up a premium rate phone line and rigged a system where they could switch between the standard line and premium line by a switch on the phone. His wife is wheel chair bound and he had a stroke so moving quickly to the phone is a right pain in the arse. They were getting abusive phone calls from local scumbag kids, the police weren't not interested as they were no directly threatening. however after earning close to a grand in a few months the calls stopped. All round winner I would sayXJSsometimeSoon said:
A friend of my dads is a retired BT engineer and he set up a premium rate phone line and rigged a system where they could switch between the standard line and premium line by a switch on the phone. His wife is wheel chair bound and he had a stroke so moving quickly to the phone is a right pain in the arse. They were getting abusive phone calls from local scumbag kids, the police weren't not interested as they were no directly threatening. however after earning close to a grand in a few months the calls stopped. All round winner I would say
Brilliant end to the story.Some browsers have vulnerabilities that leak your browsing history, and thus can see whether you've been to a given site.
They fixed this in Firefox 3.6 which wasn't so long ago, and they may well not have sorted it in IE.
The other, easier way to do it would be that you've somehow opened that page from here, in which case it will have Pistonheads' URL as the referrer and be able to do that.
They fixed this in Firefox 3.6 which wasn't so long ago, and they may well not have sorted it in IE.
The other, easier way to do it would be that you've somehow opened that page from here, in which case it will have Pistonheads' URL as the referrer and be able to do that.
It looks like that, erm, offer is now back on PH as an 'official' advertisement. See OP.
Any further thoughts PH management?
Click the link and off you go down the same route and you can even get a pop-up to double your chances whoopee!
There is a remote chance that this is legit but as it's almost identical if not the same I wanted to raise it.
Any further thoughts PH management?
Click the link and off you go down the same route and you can even get a pop-up to double your chances whoopee!
There is a remote chance that this is legit but as it's almost identical if not the same I wanted to raise it.
turbobloke said:
Pints said:
Stuart said:
It is just an advertisement. It makes no mention of PH, doesn't feature our logo and uses none of our colours. These sort of advertisements can be seen all over the web - I'm not sure why it is such a big deal here tbh.
Advert or scam?trashbat said:
Some browsers have vulnerabilities that leak your browsing history, and thus can see whether you've been to a given site.
They fixed this in Firefox 3.6 which wasn't so long ago, and they may well not have sorted it in IE.
The other, easier way to do it would be that you've somehow opened that page from here, in which case it will have Pistonheads' URL as the referrer and be able to do that.
Not the only way to find out... If you have a large ad network, you can see where your ads are being displayed and correlate the data collected from the user when the ad is shown. IP address, rough location, etc... All this would be held in a database to track your rough web movements.They fixed this in Firefox 3.6 which wasn't so long ago, and they may well not have sorted it in IE.
The other, easier way to do it would be that you've somehow opened that page from here, in which case it will have Pistonheads' URL as the referrer and be able to do that.
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