The top ad when you Google 'amazon' is a scam

Re:The top ad when you Google 'amazon' is a scam by atxlurker on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:50PM (#13468675)

There was post early today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463263) where the same issue was happening, but the search was for youtube. The hoax site looked just like you are describing. Interestingly, I am no longer seeing any ads on my google searches.

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Re:The top ad when you Google 'amazon' is a scam by ocdtrekkie on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:12PM (#13468748)

If you wanna check and see if Google Ads are live, search "windows support". There's always scam vendors in the ads there, and Google never does anything about them. Part of their business model to push Chromebooks. :)

As the case is, "windows support" still has three malicious ads up top, but the YouTube ad from earlier is gone, and it looks like they fixed the Amazon one, AFAICT.

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Re:The top ad when you Google 'amazon' is a scam by atxlurker on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:16PM (#13468758)

Yeah, the ads for windows support show up, however they all actually link to where the add says they do. In the case of the youtube and amazon ones today, the add link showed amazon.com and youtube.com respectively, but didn't go to either.

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Re:The top ad when you Google 'amazon' is a scam by atxlurker on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:09PM (#13468734)

I'd add, the page source has some Cyrillic script in it, and it also has some embedded base64 encoded media, one of which doesn't appear to decode into anything properly. Maybe they are trying some undisclosed exploit?

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