[fatnotlazy]

I wasn't there at the time, but she said her computer froze and she received a popup saying to call Apple support at that toll free number. I don't know whether she was looking at a Web page at the time.

[Spktyr]

There are web page ‘advertisements’ that can do that now. They automatically tell you to call “whatever OS vendor” support at that number. The vendor name changes, the number doesn’t. I’ve seen it on every major platform. It’s really funny when you’re doing it on a custom Linux build - the ad code is smart enough to know that it’s Linux, but then they tell you to call a support number when you know there isn’t one.

[CGASMIA68]

The one I hit came up after a Breitbart link from Drudge.

[Swordmaker]

I wasn't there at the time, but she said her computer froze and she received a popup saying to call Apple support at that toll free number. I don't know whether she was looking at a Web page at the time.

Her computer is not frozen. . . it is just that they've loaded hundreds of the same pop-up pages and closing them looks like you haven't closed anything. You have to force quit the browser to get rid of them. And then re-open it without re-opening any tabs from previous session. It can be quite a pain to get rid of all those open damn windows.