Scam Popup

[andrew81]

Hello,

While on appraisers forum I received a pop-up that says "your flash player may be out of date".

 

[Head Surfer]

That is a function of your computer, not our forum. I suggest you update your flash player if you want to view flash videos.

 

[glenn walker]

Not a scam - go into your adobe and upgrade it - this pops up on all of our computers .

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

https://strongarm.io/blog/adobe-flash-update-scam/

December Scam of the month. Flash player has always been scam bait.

 

[andrew81]

It is a known scam. I was not trying to view flash videos. As you can see from the screenshot, I clicked on the link for "FNMA Unacceptable Assignment Condition?" and a new tab opened. Look at the scam url. That is not an adobe address.


It is likely from one of the ads.

 

[andrew81]

I have flash blocked by default. If this were a legitimate adobe request, it would ask me if i want to allow it to run.

 

[Riick]

I have flash blocked by default. If this were a legitimate adobe request, it would ask me if i want to allow it to run.

BINGO !
You rarely need flash, which IMHO, is mostly used in adverts, and to install malware.
I also keep mine off, and allow it to run sparingly.

 

[andrew81]

the scam pop-up tells you it's a scam right in the pop-up itself

If you get the message "This file is not commonly downloaded" Skip the "Remove file" option and click Open.

"This file is not commonly downloaded" is a browser warning that the downloaded file is considered suspicious.

 

[techbiker]

I agree that the OP ran into some spam/malware. Andrew, have you scanned your computer for malware recently? If it's clean, I'm 99.9% sure the scam popup came from the website.

 

[Elliott]

Go to www.adobe.com if you want to update Adobe. Don't update it from a pop-up.
Below is a screen shot from a google search, not a link.