Be Aware Fake Ads Electrum Wallet on Chrome

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There is an interval of time though, in which the antiviruses may not detect anything, until the reports come in. For example, I ran Virustotal yesterday on the fake site, and got no negative ratings. Currently it displays four, but some other well known antiviruses on the list still do not mark the site (and may not, at least from VirusTotal’s engine):

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/d12cb925f431147057e3ba4e8a20ade5582ead5a4dd9485511ea4633bbe37e80/detection

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Still, even a simple antivirus or even the windows Security is detecting this as dangerous sites.

It looks like it was recently updated because there have been reports of phishing but the possibility of phishing ads in Google search in the future is still there, I am very worried that the security of AdWords ads does not filter out phishing cases and "indirectly" provides an opportunity for this scammer to act. We have to warn anyone that the address of the official wallet website must be bookmarked and never access it from a search engine.

[lovesmayfamilis]

hello newbie, don't search "electrum" on Google searching box, I warn you, Look at the image below;

Searching for a term on google is fine.
Not using an adblocker (like you do) is the problem as well as clicking on ads.

I'd recommend you (and every other person) to install an ad blocker.

So, don't use chrome anymore.

While people definitely shouldn't use google chrome, this is not the reason for that.
Without an ad blocker, you'll see those ads in every browser, not just chrome.

A good suggestion is to use browser ad blockers. But if we talk about newbies, then they should be warned that adblockers are also different and can themselves provoke a switch to phishing sites. Fake ad blockers collect information about user activity and can influence which sites the user visits.
Just read the data of how many people, out of inexperience, use such blockers.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/popular-chromium-ad-blockers-caught-stealing-user-data-and-accessing-accounts/?comments=1

Evidence collected to date shows that the extensions are covertly uploading user data and gaining unauthorized access to at least one website, in violation of Google terms of service and quite possibly applicable laws. Google has already removed the extensions from the Chrome Web Store and issued a warning that they aren’t safe. Anyone who had either of these extensions installed should remove them from their machines immediately.

https://www.hackread.com/20-million-chrome-users-have-installed-fake-malicious-ad-blockers/

[Mandarava]

This is terrible. It seemed to me that chrome is one of those browsers that you should trust and that has not yet been got any minus. I'm using a hardware wallet, but a lot of people are likely to fall into this trap and lose money. Why have the chrom developers been reacting for so long and still haven't fixed it?

[Chikito]

Why have the chrom developers been reacting for so long and still haven't fixed it?

Not only that but also youtube.

I agree with the comment above where said ads are the problem. Maybe they don't have a specific team to handle it, Google can't detect scam ads because this case needs an investigation by a reporter and valid proof. If the people daily reporting this scam with correct proof, I think Google will thinking to continue to flagging ads like this.

more information about people complain about google ads https://support.google.com/google-ads/thread/8715211?hl=en