How to remove Banco Montepio Email Scam

Easy methods to delete Banco Montepio Email Scam (Remove Phishing/Scam)

Threat Summary

Threat Name: Banco Montepio Email Scam

Threat Type: Fraud, Phishing, Scam/ Social Engineering

Description: This scam email claims that an unusual transactions has been detected on your banking accounts and you need to update the account security in order to prevent you from being suspended.

Distribution methods: Malicious emails and attachments, suspicious hyperlinks, malicious ads or popups, fake software updaters, installers and downloaders

Motives of attackers: Aims to collect your personal information or sensitive information and shares it to illegal ones.

Malware removal method: To remove Banco Montepio Email Scam or similar infections, you should keep up-to-date your antivirus/security software and scan the PC for malware or viruses regularly.

How did Banco Montepio Email Scam infect computer?

Scammers or malware programmers use “Email Spam Campaigns” or “Malspam Campaigns” to triggers Trojan, ransomware and/or other harmful malware in your computer. They use the name & LOGO of some trustworthy companies or organizations in its spam emails, and send to your mailbox which contains some false-positive messages along with suspicious hyperlinks and/or attachments. These files can be in various formats such as Microsoft Office documents (docs, xlx, ppt and others), archives (ZIP, RAR and others), PDF, executables (.exe, .run, etc), JavaScript and/or other formats of files. Once opened, malware programmers execute certain scripts to download/install malware or viruses in your computer.

What is Banco Montepio Email Scam? What it does?

Banco Montepio Email Scam is considered as phishing/scam designed to extract your banking credentials including usernames, passwords/PIN codes. Scammers use the name & LOGO of “Banco Montepio – Portuguese banking and mutual savings organization”, and send a spam email in your mailbox that claims an unusual transaction has been detected on your banking accounts and to prevent you from being suspended, you need to update the account security. Note that this scam email is in no way associated with actual Banco Montepio Bank. The main motive of scammers behind this deceptive email is to steal login credentials of your bank accounts via the malicious link presented in spam email.

Banco Montepio Email Scam use “BANCO MONTEPIO – Identificamos uma transacao nao habitual em sua conta. – ( 62051474959)” as subject/title of this spam email, and contains some false-positive messages that states bank’s monitoring System has detected that your security credentials and private Net24 Access need to be updated and authorized. During this update/authorization process, it asks you to log into your banking accounts by clicking link presented in spam emails redirect you to phishing website. This phishing webpage is designed to collect your banking login credentials. Once the attackers gain access to your banking account, they can make fraudulent transactions and/or online purchases with your banking accounts. However, they can share these confidential details to other attackers or third parties to generate some income from them.

As mentioned above, the main motive of attackers behind Banco Montepio Email Scam is to collect your banking login credentials by tricking you into phishing website and log into your banking accounts to prevent you from this email security issue. In other words, this scam email allows that scammers or attackers to access or control your banking accounts. They can make monetary transactions using your banking account login credentials without your knowledge. To prevent your System from this type of phishing/scam, you should try to avoid click any links/attachments presented in spam or irrelevant emails and, try to remove Banco Montepio Email Scam or similar infections from machine as soon as possible.

Prevention tips: How to protect your System against Banco Montepio Email Scam or malware?

You should be alert while browsing internet and avoid download/installing and/or activating any applications from unofficial websites/sources, peer-to-peer file sharing network, fake software updaters, installers and downloaders, and other third parties’ sources. Avoid opening any attachments and/or hyperlinks presented in irrelevant or spam emails and check if “Anti-spam filter” feature is enabled. Note that this feature when enabled, all the spammy emails will automatically deliver to ‘Spam Folder’ of your mail service you use like Gmail. You can also enable this feature using some powerful antivirus software. To prevent your machine from malware or viruses attacks, you should keep up-to-date your antivirus/security software and scan the computer for malware or viruses regularly.

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 Banco Montepio Email Scam:

Remove the related items of Banco Montepio 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 Banco Montepio 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 (Banco Montepio 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 Banco Montepio 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 Banco Montepio 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 Banco Montepio 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 Banco Montepio 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 Banco Montepio 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.