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You’d be shocked at how many people (smart people included) are fooled by stupid ads and misleading website alerts and notifications. I used to do customer support for a large tech company, and people get sucked into giving up passwords or PII All. The. Time. by convincing ads. Some of these actors even deliberately style the ads to look like system alerts!

Yah, probably not a lot of HN users falling for it, but I was constantly surprised by the demographic. I’d regularly see smart, accomplished people get bamboozled by ads. It’s wild.