Don't know where it came from, but their internet popup ad activated and refused to close. It fraudulantly immitated an MS Windows message alert window in an attempt to make it look as though it had been triggered by the OS.
Message window stated I had a message waiting for me. Clicking on the window activated a popup window claiming I won a choice of one of four prizes. In clicking on one of the prizes (an iPhone) it lead me toward a sign-up for a 2 year contract for mobile phone service in order to get the ''free'' iPhone.
Had to forciably close the ad, which was not an easy task. Searched the internet about the ad source, WebRewardStream.com. None of it was good. Tried to find a contact for this business but they aggressively hide their contact information. Please reference below and protect yourself.
http://whois.domaintools.com/webrewardstream.com
WebRewardStream.com Whois Record
Here's what we know about webrewardstream.com:
* "Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc." was found in about 1,678,124 other domains
* [email protected] is a contact on the whois record of 1,114,245 domains
* 1 registrar has maintained records for this domain since 2008-04-28
* This domain has changed name servers 2 times over 1 year.
* Hosted on 34 IP addresses over 1 years.
* View 206 ownership records archived since 2008-04-30 .
* Wiki article on Webrewardstream.com
* 10,298 other web sites are hosted on this server.
-(Pease note the frequent and numerous changes in a short period of time. A moving target is harder to hit.)
Registration Service Provided By: Enom, Inc
Contact: [email protected]
Visit: www.enom.com
Domain name: webrewardstream.com
Administrative Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent ([email protected])
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4259744730
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O webrewardstream.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
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http://www.benedelman.org/rightmedia-deception
Does an excellent job of detailing the deceptions used by this outfit.
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http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/webrewardstream.com
McAfee security site has warnings posted by people who have had experiences with this outfit - none of them good.