RT @OBSProject@twitter.com
⚠️ SCAM ALERT! ⚠️ There are ads on Google that link to a fake version of OBS with malware. Only download OBS from our official site, http://obsproject.com, and never click any ads claiming to be OBS.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OBSProject/status/1533960714628497408
@abid @HakenTrigger Once Google had an ad for #GoogleSupport on the front page which led to a #scam and one of my colleagues provided it to costumer as they had to reach google to resolve a technical issue!
Needless to say costumer got scammed 200$ and we had to deal with the consequences!
@notaleman @abid Sadly it's not new because the ads goes to the ones who can pay them, and Alphabet doesn't do the right checks. Like many others.
@tio Except Linux isn't the good place to go for streaming games, because it stays less user-friendly and game aren't always playable on it. I agree the repository way is great, but not the solution in my opinion.
@HakenTrigger This is not the first time something like that happened. Users of a cryptocurrency wallet have already fallen for that kind of scam: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/4/22763015/cryptocurrency-fake-wallet-phishing-scam-google-ads-phantom-metamask
I remember reading about something similar for Signal, where ads redirected users to a phishing website with compromised download links, but I can't find the source anymore.
@dreeg It happens often, but like each time it's good to try to tell vulnerable people to always double-check.