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Ask HN: Have you seem any “scam news” popunders?

3 points by ReverseCold ↗ HN
The other day I was on a file sharing site that a friend had uploaded a file to and I got a popunder that looked exactly like CNN with a headline + article claiming that a certain local politician was involved in a scandal. Of course, it wasn't actually CNN.

Have any of you seen something like this?

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Artlav
It's fairly common in the shadier parts of the internet. Such side-opened pages can even host various exploits (if you are on Windows) or fork bombs (in the old days).