How To Remove Email Security Alert Scam

Effective Guide To Delete E-Mail Clustered Email Scam from PC

E-Mail Clustered Email Scam is a deceptive email scam that tries to scam innocent users. These email scam letters claims that recipient must be updating their email account security. Data due to recently security upgrades. The link presented in these letters “CLICK HERE TO UPDATE YOUR EMAIL SECURITY NOw” redirect to phishing website, disguised as an email account log-in page. While users are to click to update their account then redirects to a phishing website which designed to steal email account and password.

Scammers also use this phishing email accounts including social media, social networking, communications, data storage , online digital wallet and banking account. Scammers can also ask contacts friends for loans or spread malware by sharing infectious files. They can also collect user’s private and sensitive information like as  email-id, password, geo-locations, IP address etc. So it is highly advice to change the password of the compromised email and associated accounts. Do not trust on such email and never try to disclose any private and sensitive information otherwise cyber-criminal may use for identity theft,  generate revenue,  fraudulent there fore you can lose your identity and financial data.

Text presented in the “Email Security Alert” scam letter:

Subject: Email Security Alert

Attention ********,

Due to our recent security database upgrade, ******** user must update their email account security.

You must complete this process immediatley to avoid losing your email account with us.

CLICK HERE TO UPDATE YOUR EMAIL SECURITY NOW

********  Administrator

This is an autmomated email sent from our email severs to let you know about important changes.©2020 Cyber security dept. Mountain View.

 How does spam email Campaign infect your System?

Cyber criminal  used spam email campaign to disguise innocent users. The infectious files can be attached to the scam email or the letters which can contain download link of such content. Infectious files can be in various formats like as Microsoft Office, PDF documents, exe file, zip, archer, java script and so on. When these files are executed or opened then the infection gets installed into the System.

 A part from the spam email campaign, it may get installed into the system via downloading and installing freeware program from third party downloader site with carelessness. Clicking on malicious links, peer to peer sharing files through bad network environments.

How To prevent the Installation of E-Mail Clustered Email Scam:

Do not opened irrelevant or suspicious email especially which have any attachments or links. Do not open any attachments without scanning. It is important to check the grammatical error and spelling mistakes of the email body content. Do not download and install program especially freeware from third party downloader site. Always use official and trustworthy download website. It is important to read the installation guide carefully till the end as well as select custom or advance options. Scan your system regularly. If you have already opened malicious attachments we are highly recommended to remove E-Mail Clustered Email Scam virus without any delay.

Threat Summary:

Name:  E-Mail Clustered Email Scam

Threat Type:      Phishing, Scam, Social Engineering, Fraud

Fake Claim:         Scam emails claim recipients need to update their email accounts

Symptoms:  changed online account passwords, identity theft, illegal access of the computer.

Distribution methods:    Deceptive emails, rogue online pop-up ads, search engine poisoning techniques, misspelled domains.

Damage:              Loss of sensitive private information, monetary loss, identity theft.

Removal : To eliminate possible malware infections, scan your computer with legitimate 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 E-Mail Clustered Email Scam:

Remove the related items of E-Mail Clustered 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 E-Mail Clustered 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 (E-Mail Clustered 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 E-Mail Clustered 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 E-Mail Clustered 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 E-Mail Clustered 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 E-Mail Clustered 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 E-Mail Clustered 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.