Here came the new tech support scam ads on YouTube, following the previous one. I don’t know if this is the same French guy Merovingean, but Google says the advertiser is from the US.
Compared to the conventional one, the landing page looks similar but sounds different. It makes funny noise in broken Japanese, delivered by a disturbing female voice in a 30 second loop.
“重要なセキュリティメッセージ。あなたのコンピュータはしまい込まれました。あなたのIPアドレスがあなたの知識なしで使われました。コンピュータのジョウフウを開けるために、すぐにウィンドウをサポートと交信してください。シャットダウンをしないでください。そして、そうすることがデータ損失と個人情報セトウに導くかもしれないあなたのコンピュータを再起動しないでください。コンピュータロックはデータ損失を防止する狙いです”
It translates;
“Importente sekurity messssage. Your computur has been stored up deep inside. Your IP address has been used while it does’nt kneed your knowledge. Make your window communicate with the suppourt immediately to open your computer’s inforemaetion. Do not try a shutdown of your compooter, and then, as doing so may lead to data loss and personal informaytion thieves don’t reboot your conputer. The compeutor lock is the scheme to preventative data loss.”
Don’t contact (0101) 20293-70266 or 0101-20293-70322
It tries to turn full screen mode on and disrupt the OS task switcher while making ear breaking noise. You better not open it, but FYI, this is the landing page URL:
https://parapentors.com/?gad_source=2
Here I got another one.
This is also from the US, according to Google’s “My Ad Centre”. It says “Sponsored: Organic Spice Shop” and it’s linked to https://eapokityew.com
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The linked website looks an innocent normal spice shop so far (at 4:51 am on Apr 2 2025), but if you look closer, you’ll notice something is off with the content. For example, here is the contact info.
Contact Us
3-chōme-*-** Kamisugi, Aoba Ward, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0011, Japan+812239855**
***anicspiceshop@gmail.com
The physical address is located at a non-business residence in Japan. The phone number belongs to a seemingly irrelevant ramen place nearby.
As it looks like a shopping website, you can put “Cinnamon / 520JPY” in the shopping cart. But you’ll never know what quantity of cinnamon spice you are going to pay 520 JPY for.
There is a clickable “Checkout” button on the menu and you can even proceed the checkout. But of course, when you filled out the purchase details, you’ll never see their grayed out “payment methods” options turning on.
I can’t wait for the day when this website start working. Or, did it already start? My browser has eaten their unhealthy cookies.
Subsequently, I keep getting other YouTube ads from the same US scammer. He likes to draw genital-ish abstract art for his thumbnail like these;
Both of these ads are linked to the URL, which is also not recommended to go, but FYI; https://celsorporeion.com/
The URL by itself appears an innocent normal website, but once if you add some URL parameter like “?gad_source=1” to the end, it shows the intimidating tech support scam page, like others before.
Do NOT call (0101) 20293-70192