How to remove Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam

Easy methods to delete Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam from PCs (Remove Phishing/Scam)

Threat Summary

Threat Name: Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam

Threat Type: Phishing, Scam, Fraud, Social Engineering

Description: This scam email claims you are one of the lucky people to benefit and receive $1,000,000.00USD from their foundation’s ongoing goodwill, and tricks you into providing your personal or sensitive information.

Distribution methods: Malicious emails and attachments, suspicious hyperlinks, fake software downloaders, installers and updaters

Motives of attackers: Aims to collect your sensitive information and shares these collected data to illegal ones.

Malware removal method: To remove Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam or similar infections, we recommended you to scan your computer with powerful antivirus software.

How did Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam infect computer?

One of the mostly used mechanisms by cybercriminals or scammers to spread Trojan, Ransomware, worms and/or other malware is known as “Email Spam Campaigns” or “Malspam Campaigns”. Scammers use the name & LOGO of some trustworthy/popular companies in its spam emails, which contain some messages along with suspicious hyperlinks or attachments. They use “Urgent”, “Important”, “Priority”, “Official” or similar keywords as subject/title in its email as proof that they are genuine sender. On other hand, the attachments can be Microsoft Office Documents, PDF, RAR, ZIP, JavaScript and/or other formats of files. Once opened, it executes malicious codes in your computer and starts corrupting your machine deeply.

What is Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam? What it does?

Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam is another phishing/scam designed to tricks you into providing your personal or sensitive information. Scammers or malware programmers behind this scam claims that you have been selected to receive $1,000,000.00 USD from “Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India” where “Azim Premji” – an Indian Businnes magnate, engineer, investor and philanthropist. However, this scam email is in no way associated with “Azim Premji” or Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation. Actually, scammers use their name to gain your trust and you abuse it for profit. So, you can simply avoid this scam email.

Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam claims that this email is belongs to “Azim Premji Foundation” or “Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India”, you are informed that your email address has been randomly selected and as such- you are entitled to donation worth about 1 million US dollars. This scam email also contains a link to contact them and you are asked to initiate communication using a valid one and trick you into providing your some personal or sensitive information to receive the money. Once the link presented in this spam email clicked, you will be redirected on phishing/scam webpage that will ask you to fill your some valuable details in required field and submit to them to get the money.

As mentioned above, Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam is designed to collect your personal or sensitive information. They can keep record of your some information like, names, surnames, addresses, telephone numbers, emails, banking account, credit card & ATM numbers, login credentials of your various accounts, and so on. Once they gain access to your computer by clicking hyperlinks presented in this type of scam email, they will start modifying your browser’s settings and/or Operating System’s settings without your knowledge. In other words, this scam email is not safe for your online privacy & System security. To prevent your System from further damages, it is important to remove Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam from System as soon as possible.

Prevention tips: How to protect your System against malware or viruses?

• Any hyperlinks and/or attachments presented in spam or irrelevant emails must not be clicked
• Hover your mouse over any hyperlinks before click and double-check if the hyperlinks are belongs to some trustworthy sources.
• You should try to block the senders’ email addresses from sending spam emails
• Any applications must not be downloaded/installed from unofficial/unknown websites
• Scan the PC for malware or viruses regularly with powerful antivirus software
• Remove all faulty software installed in your computer.

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 Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India email scam:

Remove the related items of Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India 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 Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India 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 (Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India 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 Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India 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 Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India 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 Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India 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 Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India 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 Azim Premji Philanthropies Foundation-India 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.