The message claims I won a prize. I have a new message from "God knows what?" that congratulates me that I won a prize of my choice. First of all, if you click the advertisement, it leads to another website of things to do before you claim the prize. You have to join or do a subscription such as magazines or a blockbuster membership, and then pay for those expenses. Then you also need to have 10 other people do the same. Overall it's a scam and a lie.
In order to fix this, they should have it instead of LIEING, they can say you have to do these things in order to claim something instead of saying you won, even though we all know you didn't win.
It is almost sad to think about the fact that there must still be people out there, who are falling for these kind of ads, though there must be, since you still see them all the time while browsing the internet. It is bad because they prey on people who either have little overall knowledge of computers, or those that are generally not smart enough to grasp the fact that is a lie, and that there isn’t really some message waiting to be seen by them, or some prize they have won that is just waiting to be claimed. It is too bad there is no actual regulation for these kind of ads, or at least regulation which is actually effective.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good example.I hate pop up ads, and I especially hate ads that say you won something, like a ipod or a tv or money.It is so obviousley a scam and rite away I choose to reject the claim. This is a horrible thing they do.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, they should explain what you have to do to claim this great prize they are advertising. If they didnt make it seem so easy to claim these prizes when they really are, or that they are instant winnings (meaning that you click "here" and you instantly get a prize) not then it wouldnt be false advertisement.
I am so glad that you chose this as your advertisement example. These pop up on everyone's computer and they are extremely annoying! These ad's are so misleading as well as a nescience, its amazing to me that there are people out there who actually fall for these scams too and end up in trouble for clicking when they shouldn't have. I like how you decided to call them out saying they need to explain to the person all the hoops that you have to jump thought to get your special "prize". I have a feeling that if this was announced though most people would see and decided to just exit out of it.
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