How to remove Amazon Giftcard pop up from PC

Effective methods to delete Amazon Giftcard pop up

Amazon Giftcard pop up is fake notification scam messages displayed by malicious  or harmful websites. It is used by cyber criminals or scammers to scam innocent users for extort huge money or collect user’s personal information. These pop-ups are usually brought either by the websites you were visiting or adware. However, users visit these websites unknowingly.

Moreover, Amazon Giftcard pop up refers to pop-ups that falsely claim that you can win a gift card from the Amazon e-shop. Such type of messages states that you are the lucky winner today and you have won $1000 Amazon gift card and lots of prizes. To receive the card or other attractive prizes like iPhone, iPad then you have to complete a survey.

If you agree to complete the survey then you have to disclose personal and confidential information like email addresses which are used to send the gift card. This is done to misuse system resources and perform various tasks such as mining cryptocurrency. As mentioned above, that Amazon Giftcard pop up is a fake message and users are highly recommended not to trust on such type of messages.

Despite this, PUPs often infiltrate into the system without permission as well as cause redirects, deliver intrusive advertisements and gather private information. This hazardous adware also shows other kinds of adverts in form of coupons, banners, pop-ups, discounts etc. They include third party links and redirect browser to unknown pages once you tap upon them. So, stay away from these adverts even if they look attractive or useful.

Amazon Giftcard pop up is reserved for you pop-up adware is capable of disabling the working of installed security programs and bringing other hazardous infections in the computer as well. It eats up enormous amount of memory resources and downgrades the overall PC functioning drastically. So, users are strongly recommended to uninstall all PUPs immediately.

Threat summary

Name: Amazon Giftcard pop up

Type: iPhone Scam

Caused by: adware

Short Description: Aims to steal your personal and financial information.

Symptoms: Your web browser begins to display various types of iPhone Amazon redirects, which results in slowing down of your iPhone.

Distribution: free software installers, deceptive pop-up ads, pirated software, fake apps, virus web pages.

Damage: loss of personal and sensitive information, infiltration of serious malware, decreased computer performance and many more.

Removal: Use reliable antimalware removal tool to remove Amazon Giftcard pop up and all PUPs immediately from the system.

How did PUAs install on my computer?

It normally gains silent intrusion in the targeted system along with the cost free applications. So, you need to be very attentive while browsing the web. Read the terms and conditions carefully and always choose custom or advanced settings instead of the default one. Here you can deselect the additional tool that look suspicious and select only the main application. The longer this perilous virus stay inside, it keeps displaying annoying ads and pop-ups throughout the day and interrupt your web sessions very badly. So, we highly advise to delete Amazon Giftcard pop up adware from the system immediately.

How to prevent intruding unwanted apps?

To avoid this critical situation, users are advised to be very careful when browsing the internet and especially when downloading/installing software. Intrusive adverts appear legitimate as cyber criminals invest many resources into designing them, however they often redirect you to dubious sites. If you encounter these redirects then immediately eliminate all dubious applications and browser plug-ins or add-ons. During installation of any apps, carefully analyze each step of the download/installation processes and opt out all additionally included programs. All software downloads should only be done by using official pages and via direct download links. Thus, the key to system safety is carefulness.

Text presented in “Amazon Gift Card” scams:

Congratulations! Amazon.com User! You’ve been selected for a chance to get the $1000 Amazon Gift Card, Apple iPhone X 256G or Samsung Galaxy S8! Please click OK to claim your reward before it expires!

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 Amazon Giftcard pop up:

Remove the related items of Amazon Giftcard pop up 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 Amazon Giftcard pop up 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 (Amazon Giftcard pop up) 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 Amazon Giftcard pop up 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 Amazon Giftcard pop up 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 Amazon Giftcard pop up 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 Amazon Giftcard pop up 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 Amazon Giftcard pop up (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.