Ask HN: Anyone else seeing ChatGPT scam ads on Twitter?

1 pointsby simple103 tahun yang lalu2 comments

This isn't meant to diss Twitter. But it's worth knowing about the many ChatGPT + chrome extension scam ads floating around on social these days. I found this one running as a Twitter ad, but similar ones are likely on all ad platforms. I find it hard to believe someone would fall for this type of scam, but it must be working well enough to keep running ads.

The ad [1] takes the user to a website [2] where they're prompted to join the beta to test a ChatGPT browser extension that helps create Google Ads. The website links to a github repo [3] with instructions on installing the extension in developer mode. On quick glance, the extension appears to log clipboard and keystrokes. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[EDIT] The Twitter ad [1] has over 7M views since June 27, 2023.

[1] https://twitter.com/realnull42/status/1673900689628471296

[2] https://www.adsgpt.click/

[3] https://github.com/MarketingExtensions/AI-Ads-Manager

2 comments

pppapanik3 tahun yang lalu

yup, already reported on them on GH yesterday. They took them down after one hour.

Now they are up again just now: https://github.com/Ads-Managers/AI-Powered-Ads

Their Twitter ad keeps on giving. It went viral, like literally

No response, since yesterday. Well, verified and paid subscriber Elon... won't go down that easily

raverbashing3 tahun yang lalu

> I find it hard to believe someone would fall for this type of scam

People who pay for a bluecheck are an easy target I mean...