How to remove 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam

Easy methods to delete 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam (Remove Phishing/Scam)

2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam or “MASTERCARD 2020 WINNING AWARD” email is belongs to phishing/scam category that is designed to tricks you into providing your personal information to them. Scammers behind this phishing/scam attempts to inject malicious codes in your machine via malicious attachments. For more details, you can read this article carefully. Let’s starts the discussion.

What is “2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam”?

Scammers send malicious emails in your mailbox which contains some message that states “We Wish to congratulate you for being one of selected E-mail Online Winners in the 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD. Kindly view the enclosed Annex/Attachment for the MASTERCARD 2020 WINNING AWARD LETTER”. According to this scam email, you have won the prize as MASTERCARD. However, it asks you to send them your credit card, banking information and other crucial details on scammers’ email address. You should never believe on them at any cases.

Cybercriminals behind 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam attacks attempts to install potentially unwanted applications in your computer in order to open malicious attachments with this scam email. Once the unwanted applications installed, you can’t work on your System comfortably as usual like before due to its dubious behaviors. Initially, it blocks some genuine applications including anti-malware, Firewall security setting, control panel, System registry setting, command prompt and other applications that cause serious troubles. If your System has detected this malware, then you should try to remove 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam from machine immediately.

Threat Summary

Threat Name: 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam

Threat Type: Adware, PUP, PUA, Phishing/Scam, Fraud

Browser infected: Google Chrome, IE, Mozilla Firefox, Edge, etc

System infected: Windows OS based machine

Description: This dubious malware injects harmful codes in your main browser as well as in your System’s settings that causes serious troubles. It adds malicious extensions or add-ons to your browser that allows the hackers to traces your online activities and steals your sensitive information as well.

Distribution methods: Free software packages (method of bundling), fake Flash Player installers or other fake software updates, malicious ads or popup messages, suspicious hyperlinks and many other tricks.

Motives of crooks: The main purpose of cybercriminals malware attack is to steal your crucial & confidential information and shares it to other hackers or third parties to generate some income. They also want to steal your money from your wallet or e-wallet.

Removal Solution: In case if your System has infected from 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam related malware, then you can scan your computer with powerful antivirus software.

What 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam does?

As discussed above, 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam allows cybercriminals to inject malicious codes in your browser’s settings and System’s settings without permission. It attempts to engage you on its scam email and tricks you into clicking malicious attachments. In order to open such infected attachments, it can trigger lots of harmful malware like Trojan, worms or keyloggers in your computer that can make your System useless. Its main motive is to collect your crucial & confidential information such as IP address, URLs search, user name & password, banking information and more details as well. However, they can share these collected details to other hackers or third parties to generate some income from them.

How your System gets infected from 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam?

“2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam” or other similar phishing/scam is generally get enters into your machine from spam email messages. Cybercriminals use “Email Spam Campaigns” to triggers harmful malware like adware, Trojan, ransomware, worms, keyloggers or other malware in your computer. They use the name like “Urgent”, “Important”, “Priority”, “Official” or other similar keywords as subject of emails, and contain some messages along with malicious attachments. In order to open such infected attachments, it can execute encryption module in your machine and locks all files stored in your computer. So, you should be alert while surfing online and avoid opening attachments coming from unknown emails.

Precautionary measures:

• Keep Operating System like Windows, macOS, Linux and other OS up-to-date
• Keep all the genuine software running in computer up-to-date
• Remove all the faculty software from machine
• Scan the PCs with powerful antivirus software in regular interval of times
• Hover mouse over any hyperlinks before click and check if hyperlinks is belongs to some trustworthy domain

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 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD Email Scam:

Remove the related items of 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD 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 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD 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 (2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD 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 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD 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 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD 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 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD 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 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD 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 2020 MASTERCARD USERS AWARD 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.