Facebook users repeatedly report that they receive a pop-up ad on their smartphone that is superimposed on the actual post.
These pop-ups vary in content, but this one is currently appearing more frequently:

“Dear user, to celebrate Facebook's 14th birthday, we are hosting a reward for you to receive valuable gifts.”
Visually it looks as if you are still on Facebook, but in fact it is a fraudulent advertisement that lures users to data collector sites or wants to install malicious software.
These pop-ups not only appear when you are on Facebook, but also often on reputable websites (even sometimes on mimikama.org, as users reported to us).
How can you prevent such pop-ups?
- To do this, open the Facebook app on your cell phone.
- Access the app's settings via the three-bar icon in the top menu bar.
- Scroll down to “Settings and Privacy”.
- and here directly below to the “Settings”
- If you now tap on “Media and Contacts”, you will now find…
- ...here the option “Links are opened externally” is available.
- Activate the option to be able to open external links via the Facebook app as usual with your favorite Android browser.
You can find illustrated instructions for this .
You should also follow the following steps:
- To be on the safe side, you should generally have so-called value-added services blocked by your cell phone provider, because you can never be sure that such advertising banners/apps will not become active in the background
- also strongly recommend third-party block
- Deletes the “history” and “saved website content” as well as the “cookies” directly in the browser.
- Consider an antivirus app
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