How To Remove Proof Of Payment email scam Virus

Proof Of Payment email scam Trojan: Easy Delete Guide

Proof Of Payment email scam is a social engineering technique used by potent cyber crooks in order to trick novice users into providing their sensitive information. In this scam, cyber criminals send thousands of phishing emails, claiming to contain a payment-related document within it. However, by clicking on the attached document, users are redirected to a phishing site, which is disguised as an email account sign-in page. This malicious site has been specially designed by criminals to record log-in credentials (i.e., passwords) provided in it, which allows the scammers to gain access to the sensitive data and linked mail account.

More About Proof Of Payment email scam:

The “Proof Of Payment email scam” letters have Fwd: 0970331_receipt-MT103 as subject/title that may vary, and includes a short message. According to the letter, “Sales team manager” is not available at the moment, and thus, the recipient has been sent the proof of payment. There is no any file attached to the mails, they include an image of a PDF document. As soon as the image is clicked on, it redirects the recipients to a website. As stated before, it is just a phishing web page designed by hackers to collect users’ vulnerable information. So, you should not try to sign-in through such deceptive sites as your email account will be stolen.

The email accounts stolen by people behind Proof Of Payment email scam can be used for illusive purposes. Using those email accounts, crooks can share malicious files/links to spread malware. If those mails include finance-related information such as banking, digital wallet, online money transferring, e-commerce etc. data, scammers can misuse them for making fraudulent transactions or purchases. And thus, if you trust such letters, you may end up with facing financial losses. Quite often, those users are targeted with such scams whose PCs are already infected with a trojan virus.

Proof Of Payment email scam virus has ability to deactivate all the running security services and Windows Firewalls and open backdoors for more nasty parasites. It may easily bring other online threats like adware, spyware, ransomware, worms etc. in your computer and turn the device into a malware-hub. It keeps performing evil deeds in the background all the time which consume enormous amount of memory resources and drag down the overall PC performance severely. And hence, a quick Proof Of Payment email scam virus removal is strongly required.

How Does This Trojan Intrude Your PC?

These types of computer viruses are most often distributed through malspam campaigns. Cyber criminals send thousands of deceptive emails that pretend to be from well-known companies or institutions. However, they typically contain misleading attachments that could be in one of these formats- Microsoft Office, PDF documents, archive files like RAR, ZIP, executable files (like .exe) and JavaScript. The moment recipients open or run the attached file, it leads to the installation of the malware.

To prevent this, you should ignore suspicious emails that you receive from unknown sender as you never know what they contain. First check the legitimacy of such emails and their senders and open them only if you are completely satisfied with their legality. But at the moment, you must remove Proof Of Payment email scam virus from the PC as soon as possible.

Text Presented In The Letters:

Subject: Fwd: 0970331_receipt-MT103

Dear Sir,

Our Sales team manager is out of office, please find below the proof of payment for your ref.

Thank you.

Linda Thorndyke

Accounts Office

Office: 020 8894 4540

Mobile: 07834 772655

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 Proof Of Payment email scam:

Remove the related items of Proof Of Payment 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 Proof Of Payment 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 (Proof Of Payment 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 Proof Of Payment 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 Proof Of Payment 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 Proof Of Payment 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 Proof Of Payment 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 Proof Of Payment 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.