To ask if and why anyone actually believes the bonkers video adverts that pop up when playing games online

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Specifically the one that I seem to be seeing all the time that claims you can lose 13 stone in weight in 2 weeks just by taking one pill a day.

It's obviously totally nonsense and I'm not sure how they can get away with such a claim, but I assume they have to pay for the advert and therefore someone must be buying their products. But who??

I don't get that one, I get the ones that say you can earn £100s if you play their game. Mostly You can earn it but not withdraw it. They blatantly lie by saying you can withdraw immediately.

yes people buy this stuff. Not me, not a chorus of MN’tters who will be on this thread to proclaim they don’t, but yeah people do sometimes buy this stuff.

i don’t really get this post, what you want to hear

I don't understand the ones where they get a picture of a celebrity and really age them and say "THIS IS WHAT XXXX LOOKS LIKE NOW" when it's blatantly untrue. There's a Courtney Cox one at the moment where they've given her grey hair and crumbling teeth and loads of wrinkles and made out she looks about 90 years old when everyone knows it's not true. I never click on the adverts because they're spam, so I never find out what the story is actually about.

I don't believe for one minute that Robbie Williams spends his days playing Match Magic or whatever.