Warning! Your phone is being invaded by a spider

[Doug Ratliff]

Anybody see this, know what it is? Is it legit or scam? How do you get rid of it assuming a scam?

Warning! Your phone is being invaded by a spider.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Looks like a scam but there are very tiny spiders in the real world

 

[Rob]

Tap and hold on the notification and it SHOULD display which app is sending the notification. My guess is that it's adware or crapware or ransomware trying to get you to take action.

Let us know what app is sending the notification when you find out!

 

[Jazzyrunner]

Hey Rob,
I had that warning but had already cleared it from my drop down notifications. Is there another way to find out?

 

[Rob]

I don't believe there is a way to view notification history without installing a 3rd party app. Rather than doing so... I'd just wait and see if that same notification (or another fishy one) comes in again and then DON'T CLEAR IT until this problem is resolved here.

 

[Combine]

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Anybody see this, know what it is? Is it legit or scam? How do you get rid of it assuming a scam?

Warning! Your phone is being invaded by a spider.

I just helped a customer of mine with this issue it was a Kika emoji keyboard.

 

[sward3644]

Tap and hold on the notification and it SHOULD display which app is sending the notification. My guess is that it's adware or crapware or ransomware trying to get you to take action.

Let us know what app is sending the notification when you find out!

I have the exact same message. When I hold done on the message (actually 2 of them) it shows that it is my Kika Keyboard app. What should I do?

 

[sward3644]

I just helped a customer of mine with this issue it was a Kika emoji keyboard.

Doug what did you do to help your customer?

 

[Rxpert83]

If a keyboard was doing that on my device, it would be uninstalled.

 

[zanne7]

I got that in my notifications. In settings, I disabled notifications from Kika Emoji Keyboard and I don't get crazy messages like this popping up anymore.

 

[Rob]

@zanne7 the annoying notification is just the tip of the iceberg. The real problem is why any app would send annoying ads, especially a KEYBOARD app? If they're willing to do something this shady, imagine what other malicious things they may choose to do when they have access to the information you type into a keyboard.

I'd delete the app and never look back.