How To Remove MijnOverheid Email Scam

MijnOverheid Email Scam Virus: Easy Delete Steps

MijnOverheid Email Scam is a term refers to a mass-scale operation during which, cyber criminals send thousands of deceptive emails. These spam mails are presented as letters regarding a tax refund from MijnOverheid. MijnOverheid is a personal website used to take care of issues relating to the Dutch authorities. We expressly emphasize that the legitimate aforesaid company has no relation with these phishing mails. The only objective of the senders is to trick recipients into providing their sensitive data. It is worth mentioning that such spam campaigns are also employed to proliferate malware such as trojan, ransomware, and others.

More About MijnOverheid Email Scam:

The recipients of the “MijnOverheid Email Scam” letters are claimed that they are eligible for a 703.79 EUR tax refund. They are also instructed to click on a link presented in the emails to be given the fraudulent money back. These deceptive letters also contain warnings about phishing scams stating that the legitimate MijnOverheid notifications don’t contain links. If it does, it will redirect to a malicious website. This notorious campaign aims to acquire sensitive data from victims. They promote phishing portals which pretend to be legitimate sites aiming to obtain vulnerable information (e.g., banking account information, credit card numbers, account usernames/passwords, personally identifiable details, etc.).

Data extracted through MijnOverheid Email Scam is generally used to steal victims’ identity and make deceptive transactions, unauthorized purchases, loan requests, and so forth. Moreover, the stolen info can be sold to interested parties or cyber criminals or used to create personalized scams. To summarize, if you trust these scam emails, you can experience severe privacy issues, identity theft, and significant monetary losses. As stated earlier, such campaigns can be also utilized for spreading malware.

The “MijnOverheid Email Scam” virus could be able to deactivate the running security services and open backdoors for more online threats. It may easily bring other notorious parasites such as adware, scareware, RATs, cryptominers, ransomware etc. in your work-station and turn the machine into a malware-hub. This nasty trojan eats up enormous amount of CPU and GPU resources and slows down the overall PC performance drastically. Due to this parasite, you may have to deal with hard drive crash, software failure, data loss, application malfunctioning, boot errors, and other hazardous issues. To avoid all these dilemmas, an instant MijnOverheid Email Scam removal is strongly recommended.

Distribution Of This Parasite:

Quite often, spam emails are used for spreading computer viruses. In a malspam campaign, numerous deceptive emails are sent by cyber crooks that are presented as official letters from some legitimate companies, organizations, or other entities. However, these spam mails generally contain vicious attachments that could be in multiple formats, e.g., PDF and Microsoft Office documents, JavaScript, archives (ZIP, RAR, etc.), executables (.exe, .run, etc.), and so on. Once the virulent file is opened or executed, it triggers the download and installation of malware.

To avoid such lethal attacks, files attached to suspicious or irrelevant emails should not be opened, especially without scanning the attachments with a reputable anti-malware tool. Moreover, avoid using dubious download channels (e.g., unofficial and freeware websites, Peer-to-Peer sharing networks, etc.), and choose only official and verified sources for your software. But at the moment, you must remove MijnOverheid Email Scam virus from the PC as soon as possible.

Translation Of Text Presented In The Scam Letters:

Subject: Your refund is ready

Central government logo

MyGovernment

Dear Sir / Madam,

We have determined that you are eligible for a refund.

Your tax surcharge is EUR 703.79.

In order to receive your refund, we ask you to provide your details

check and verify. Your tax refund can only be made on your

bank account will be credited if we have the correct

data.

Click here to submit your application.

Yours sincerely,

MyGovernment

Logo Central Government

Handy: Message box app

Read government mail directly on your mobile or tablet? This is possible with the MijnOverheid Message Box app. Download the app from the App Store or from Google Play.

This is an automatically generated message. A response to this message will not be read or replied to.

MijnOverheid does not send notifications with a link to the website. This is to prevent you from being redirected to a fake website with fake email notifications (so-called phishing). Therefore, include the web address of MijnOverheid in your Favorites and always go to the website from there. If you do receive an e-mail notification containing a link, it is therefore never from MijnOverheid.

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 MijnOverheid Email Scam:

Remove the related items of MijnOverheid 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 MijnOverheid 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 (MijnOverheid 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 MijnOverheid 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 MijnOverheid 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 MijnOverheid 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 MijnOverheid 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 MijnOverheid 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.