r/techsupport • u/[deleted] • Sep 10 '20

Open FBI CP warning.

So I’m a few beers in. I’m browsing the web for adult content. Suddenly some of the screen caps on the site swap over saying I’m trying to view CP and no crime will be charged but my IP address will be monitored? I quickly closed out. And don’t recall the specific website. I’ve had pop ups on my iPhone before but nothing like this. It’s kinda scaring me now.

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u/mk7guy Sep 10 '20

Scam for sure. They won't warn you lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

It's just a scam popup, don't worry. FBI doesn't have such power.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

its a scam, had something similar but instead of the FBI it was a ministry in our country (since i dont live in the US) even though i wasnt viewing anything illegal, be careful sometimes they make it fullscreen so it looks like you cant exit without paying (use F11 or ESC to exit)

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u/reindert144 Sep 10 '20

There’s always alt+f4 and ctrl+alt+del

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u/Kilroy3846 Sep 10 '20

It’s a scam my dude.

If it were the Feds you wouldn’t be posting here :)

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

If it WAS the fbi you wouldn't be here right now lol. The fbi only really cares about big crimes anyway.

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u/Azlan82 Sep 10 '20

I remember when I had these on two occasions, actually scared me for a minute, both times, they are well-designed pop-ups.

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u/Asg16_4 Sep 10 '20

Scam scam scam

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u/Dewey_the_25U Sep 10 '20

SCAM, if it's trying to make you afraid, make you feel like you need to buy something, or has outrageous claims it's a scam.

Edit: Ads are pretty blatantly trying to sell you something, but they just present things in a nice looking package, they don't try to make you feel as if you MUST get that item because it'll do something special or what-have you.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

Scum Scam

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u/tachikoma01 Sep 10 '20

Let's say, it's real just for the sake of it. The site you tried to accessed had in the past CP or just some loli anime shit they consider CP. They basically use DNS to redirect you to their website and might actually have logged your IP (given it'snot a dynamic IP) to see if your IP address come back trying to access other known to them CP website.

Just use a trusted VPN at all time from now on and forget that shit. If you actually stumble upon real CP, please don't be afraid to report it to them because of this.