DriveCleaner is known for its misleading marketing practices. And one example came to me today by an email from Robby, one of my three faithful blog readers:
I've attached two screenshots of Drive Cleaner popups happening within the Juno webmail client itself, including what appears to be a hijacked banner advertisement when I click on cancel. This has happened about three times now over the past few days and on different computers.
I don�t have Juno and can�t verify this. But what is likely happening is that Juno has contracted with a third party ad network to sell ads. DriveCleaner is displaying these ads, which are doing some fake animated �scan�.
It�s extraordinarily misleading advertising, and being served on Juno, is even worse, since Juno has a high degree of popularity among seniors, an audience that�s ripe for scams.
Let�s hope the folks at the FTC take notice.
Alex Eckelberry
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