BBB warns about video game pop up ads targeting kid gamers

“They’ll put up a pop up that’ll say ‘click here for free currency’ which is very tempting because this currency is what helps them get to the next level of the game," Roseann Freitas of the BBB says the kids who click on the pop up are often redirected to a third party app. “That is usually where the scam is going to start," Freitas says they’ve had cases of the pop ups infecting the device, or convincing kids to put in personal information, even financial details.
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