Posted 23 June 2025 - 06:11 PM
I use Yahoo mail. It is commonplace for my Inbox to be "headed" by an advertising "banner". Just recently this banner has featured an encouragement to the user to renew or take out a subscription to MacAfee.
This puzzled me because I was not aware that I had a subscription to MacAfee. I clicked cautiously on the banner but (luckily?) this was blocked by my Malwarebytes Browser Guard. The source of the message was (is):
Website blocked: https://rmut-sv.meetwebclub.com/t/clk?id=pZvNtvpLfk9qzc9KK5SR&s1=@ni&s2=7419&s5=a72e0ydfnrnikbl8d2#tblciGiAs8ackZUzlbTJZ2EIzpefLPed-gO-T4H16Rx7GB4XHXyCJ_XAo4JCPyd_OxPfDATCf214
v3.0.20 | Easylist: 202506041930
What fooled me was that if this is a genuine (!) scam it has managed to get itself lodged into the Inbox header position in Yahoo Mail. I wanted to bring this to the attention of Yahoo but they go to great lengths to discourage individual correspondence in four of FAQ's.
But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones we don't know we don't know
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