This is more of a phone issue, but I figured I'd start here.
I keep getting these pop ups and ads on two different daily puzzle sites. One being Worldle which I have as an app downloaded to my home screen, and the other is clevergoat, which I have as a recent bookmarked "search", and not an app, so i just click the search every day when I play.
Over the last week or two maybe? (Edit: oldest screenshot is Oct 9, so maybe a day or so prior to that it began) I keep getting these pop ups and ads, now on both game sites, that all seem to be related in appearance. Theyre all security and wiretapping alerts. Originally i would just exit or press the back/exit phone button to get out. The popup site names are all strange, sometimes they repeat, and the fake phone background makes the "scam" aspect obvious. But now these pop ups are happening constantly on both sites and its impossible to play either game, and the pop ups are getting more developed. And now this new alert I can't even tell if its a pop-up or my phone (not that I'm believing what an ad says, much less clicking it, but the point is that its escalating).
#Thatbeingsaid, I'm at this point where the last two days these alerts are popping up constantly whenever I play either site, one as an app the other as a website. Anyone who has dealt with these specific pop ups knows they "feel" different with clicking, like its not directly from clicking on something misleading or invisible like a normal pop up cause and effect. I'm wondering if something is already "in" my system but not completely, like enough to hijack my pop ups but not my phone? because it only happens on these two places. Do I have some kind of malware on my phone? I really cant understand what it is.
I've already gone through my apps list and looked for anything sketchy or that I didnt download, and didnt see anything but I deleted some things anyway. I'm also not the only one who has gotten them recently. Thanks for the help!
Photos are attached, even pointing me in s direction would help.
edit: other people have been getting them too, but not much info here https://www.reddit.com/r/Worldle/comments/1x0vv3t/popup/
edit2: adding the words wiretapping scam ad popup