How to remove Wage Increase Email Scam

Easy methods to delete Wage Increase Email Scam in Windows 10/8/7 computer

Wage Increase Email Scam is considered as phishing/scam. ‘Wage Increase’ Email claims your wages will increase and HR (human Resources) department will allegedly provide additional information. This scam email uses the ‘Updated July Payment structure (Final Post-Covid-19 listing) and Classified Company Documents’ or similar keywords in subject/title of email as proof that they are genuine senders. The text presented in this scam email states you wage increase will start in June of 2021 (date may vary) and will be paid out for first time by July.

Wage Increase Email Scam contains some false-positive messages along with suspicious attachment file. The attachment presented in this scam email is in the form of .Xlx file claims it contains information about salary-increase. This attachment file can’t be trusted. Once opened, it enables malicious macro commands and starts infecting your machine deeply. They can trigger Trojan virus, ransomware or other harmful malware in your computer using this phishing technique. Also, the purpose of this scam is to promote phishing/scam websites. It open phishing website when click any attachment or hyperlinks presented in the spam email.

The phishing/scam website promoted by this scam email attempts to tricks you into providing your personal information including email ID and & password to log into your email account through the phishing website. It is recommended not to sign-in into your email account through phishing/scam website. Cybercriminals use phishing/scam website to gather your email login credential details and other sensitive information. Once they gain to collect your email login credentials, they can misuse your hijacked email account for malicious purposes.

They can use your email account to register other accounts, platforms and services. Also, they can attempt to access your other accounts and services using your hijacked email accounts. For example, they can use your hijacked email accounts to communicate your friends on social media and ask them for loans, under the guise of the genuine owner. In other words, this scam email is untrustworthy at all. So, it is important to find and remove Wage Increase Email Scam related malicious files in computer.

How did you get Wage Increase Email Scam in Windows 10/8/7 computer?

Spam email campaign or malspam campaign is the mostly used mechanism by cybercriminals to spread Trojans, ransomware or malware. They can send spam email in your mailbox which contains some messages along with malicious hyperlinks or attachments. The attachments can be Microsoft Office documents, PDF, RAR, ZIP, JavaScript or other formats of files. Once opened, it executes certain codes/scripts to download/install malware or viruses in computer. For example, Microsoft Office Documents as malicious attachments infect computer by enabling malicious macro commands.

How to protect your system against email scam, Trojans or malware?

It is strongly recommended not to open any attachments or hyperlinks presented in spam emails or irrelevant emails. You should check if ‘Anti-Spam Filter’ feature is enabled in your mail service you use. ‘Anti-Spam Filter’ feature when enabled, all spammy emails will automatically be delivered to ‘Spam’ folder to your mail service you use. You should never replay to spam emails at any cases. Additionally, you should keep up-to-date your operating system and all other software installed in computer, and run regular system scan for malware or viruses in computer with some powerful antivirus software.

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 Wage Increase Email Scam:

Remove the related items of Wage Increase 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 Wage Increase 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 (Wage Increase 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 Wage Increase 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 Wage Increase 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 Wage Increase 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 Wage Increase 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 Wage Increase 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.