alert to clean phone due to hacking

[Android Central Question]

Emergency cleaning due to Sept 2022 hacking at Samsung, your phone will be locked within 24 hours if not cleaned. Is this real?

 

[mustang7757]

Where yousee this alert?
Email ,on the screen?

I'll leave a Link to register so you can communicate here as a guest account you can only post questions but can't reply.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

Emergency cleaning due to Sept 2022 hacking at Samsung, your phone will be locked within 24 hours if not cleaned. Is this real?

No, no it is not.

 

[rvbfan]

I agree, I have a pixel and got the same spam.

 

[belodion]

Make sure you report it. Some people would be deceived, so we owe it to them to do so.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! It's almost certainly a browser pop-up ad that's trying to scare you into thinking it's a legitimate warning, and trying to get you to download some "antivirus" app that is malicious itself. In the future, avoid the website you were on when that popup appeared.