How To Remove Webmail Email Scam Virus

Webmail Email Scam Trojan: Simple Delete Process

Webmail Email Scam refers to malspam campaign during which, thousands of deceptive emails are sent by cyber actors in order to trick recipients into sharing their personal data. The senders of these phishing emails try to make people believe that they are legitimate, reputable organizations, companies or other units. Quite often, malicious actors use emails or text messages to deceive recipients into providing sensitive data or installing malware on their PC systems. Typically, those users are targeted with such scams whose systems are already infected with a trojan virus. This type of malware can be employed for multiple hazardous purposes by their operators.

More About Webmail Email Scam:

The “Webmail Email Scam” letters seem to be from the email service providers. According to these letters, the email account space limit has gone beyond and hence, the email account/inbox can’t receive new incoming mails. Recipients are also urged to verify the account without wasting any time, or else, they will not be able to obtain additional mails. The main objective of these deceptive mails is to trick recipients into clicking the given website link and once the fake webmail login domain appears, entering their login details such as email address and password.

Webmail is genuine email service and has no relation with Webmail Email Scam or campaign. When the recipients provide their credentials on such precarious sites, their email accounts could be stolen by cyber crooks. Afterwards, criminals can misuse the stolen accounts for fraudulent purposes such as sending malspam, triggering scams to deceive other users into installing virus on their systems or sending money. Moreover, con artists can also steal your confidential data like credit card and bank details if they could access those mails that may have such information in them.

Scammers behind Webmail Email Scam can sell those details on the darknet or try to steal other accounts that have same login credentials as the stolen accounts. And so, you should never provide your sensitive data on third-party or unknown websites, otherwise, you may end up with being a victim of cyber crime or online scam or suffering huge financial loss. As stated in the first paragraph, hackers often target those computers with such scams that are already infected with a trojan virus. The moment this precarious threat enters the target devices, it starts performing evil deeds in the background and wreaks havoc onto the machine.

The Webmail Email Scam virus consumes enormous amount of memory resources and slows down the overall PC performance drastically. Due to this, machine starts responding slower than ever before and takes more than usual time to complete any task. Such trojan viruses are often able to deactivate the running security measures and open backdoors for more notorious parasites. They allow other online infections like RATs, worms, spyware, rootkits, adware and even most dangerous ransomware to enter the PC and cause more damages inside. And a quick Webmail Email Scam virus removal is strongly recommended.

How Does This Virus Enter Your System?

Trojan viruses can be distributed through several deceptive methods. Most often, spread through phishing emails that supposed to be legitimate. The recipients are deceived to click, download and open a malicious file which is generally disguised as important document (e.g,. invoices). Usually, the attached document is in any of these formats such as JavaScript files, executable files (like .exe), PDF, Microsoft Office documents, or archive files (like ZIP, RAR). As soon as users execute the vicious file, it leads to the installation of the virus.

And therefore, you should avoid opening emails that are irrelevant or look suspicious as you never known what they contain. Moreover, you should rely only on official pages and direct links to download software and avoid using untrustworthy sources. But at the moment, you must remove Webmail Email Scam virus from the machine as early as possible.

Text Presented In The Letters:

Subject: LAST WARNING “********”️

Your Account will soon be suspended

Your allowed Email Quota usage has been exceeded on your account.

“********”

Please kindly verify you are Human and not a robot by following the below link, so we can get your account running normal and retreive all pending mails.

Verify Account

Kindly verify your account using webmail to enable you access your account after 11:59PM before you can send mails

If no action is taken, you may cease to receive incoming emails

This Email was sent to “********” as a User from “********”

Sincerely

******** support team.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Webmail Email Scam:

Remove the related items of Webmail Email Scam using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Webmail Email Scam issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Webmail Email Scam) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Webmail Email Scam removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Webmail Email Scam still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Webmail Email Scam plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Webmail Email Scam removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Webmail Email Scam (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.