Malicious web sites on MyFittenessPal please ba careful all users

Elliefi

I have been away for a little while and come back today to see what looked like a new message, I clicked on it and it said having been away for a while, as a welcome back I have a chance to win an iPhone 11 pro in their new rewards scheme. I did not realise it was an advert at first.
my Norton security clicked in in time to prevent me from going further.
I do think that MyFitnessPal has some obligation to their users to NOT have malicious advertising on their pages that are designed to make their users think it is genuine (it even had what looked like reviews from here saying how great the new MyFitnessPal rewards scheme was).
Stay safe everyone

tiptoethruthetulips

I use ad blockers, best thing ever. Genuine mail notifications will be via the envelope next to your user name (see the very top of your screen shot) as well as the mail link next to where it says check in (see the third line in your screen shot, the darker blue one).

goal06082021

Have you been away from...the internet in general, for a while? That's so obviously an ad, it even has the little Google analytics triangle in it.

General rule of thumb when browsing - if you're on a website and you see something telling you that you've won a free thing, you have not won a free thing, do not click on it. If you use a web-based email client (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, maybe AOL?), and you see something on a website that says you have a message, and you are NOT in your actual email inbox, do not click on it. If you're on a website and you see something telling you that your computer has a virus and you must click here right now to take care of it, do not click on it.

Ads on webpages don't work like ads on TV anymore - MFP isn't choosing what ads to display on their sites. They sell the ad space to a third party, who then serve ads to you the user that the algorithm thinks you might be likely to click on.