How to remove RedCross Email Scam

Tips for RedCross Email Scam removal

RedCross Email Scam is one of the many email spam that scammers use in order to deceive the recipients into providing their personal information and transferring them money. In this particular scam, they take the advantage of the fears of the Coronavirus around and try to seek people into sending them Bitcoin to support the World Health Organization. We recommend not trust on this scam and not transfer money to the provided wallet address.

The RedCross email states that its International Committee (ICRC) has decided to provide humanitarian support for the COVID-19 victims across the Europe. The recipients are asked to donate to the COVID-19 Response Fund that is supposed to aid the workers, medical professionals and help ICRC to provide them more test kits and ventilators. Here is the full text provided on the RedCroos email:

Subject: The Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund

Dear Prospective Donor,

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in partnership with the World health Organisation (WHO) and The center for disease control and prevention (CDC) are working endlessly to control the outbreak of a 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in wuhan city, Hubei province, that began in December 2019.

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The International Red Cross has established an incident management system to co-ordinate a domestic and international public health response to checkmate this virus. Thus, The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund is a secure way for individuals, philanthropies and businesses to contribute to the ICRC-led effort to respond to the pandemic.

The International Committee of the Red Cross is providing humanitarian support for COVID-19 victims across Europe

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In help to support our Aid workers, medical professionals and provide more COVID-19 Test Kits and Ventilators for the COVID-19 victims in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Australia, some other part of Europe, Japan and some other part of Asia and Africa, The Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund is seeking your help to raise funds.

The Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan outlines a funding need of at least US$675 million for critical response efforts in countries most in need of help through April 2020. As this outbreak evolves, funding needs are likely to increase. To donate to the COVID-19 Response Fund through the secure digital currency (Bitcoin Wallet below).

Funding of the above project is quite a huge costs and we plead for your good will donation, Any amount donated will go a long way to save lives.

You can scan The Internation Red Cross Bitcoin QR Code here to make donations

N.B If bar code does not display kindly click on show image to display bar code

Or Copy and paste our Bitcoin address here to make donations : 176irSfVQsVMZWaM9Bab7TYE3WsdzmW1m2

Thanks you once again for your Goodwill contribution in standing against this virus.

Please help us share this message to reach many as possible to help Support for all the urgent humanitarian needs of the International Red Cross.

For more enquiries kindly email us at [email protected]

Regards

Paul Handerson

Co-ordinator ICRC Solidarity Response Fund

International Committee of the Red Cross

19 Avenue de la paix

1202 Geneva

Switzerland

[email protected]

It is worthwhile to mention that the Red Croos has been actually soliciting for the Bitcoin donations. But in real, neither the Red Cross’ committee nor World Health Organization have involved anyway in this scam. Therefore, you should ignore the email.

How do spam email campaigns infect computers?

Typically, emails like RedCross Email Scam include some attachments of malicious file or a link that opens up this file. In most cases, cybercriminals attach Microsoft Office Documents, PDF documents, Executables files, JavaScripts or Archives files like ZIP and RAR. Their main goal is to trick people into opening the files. Once such files are opened, the users are asked to enable macros command. One more clicks and the users end up to some malware installation in their device. This malware could be one from Ransomware, Cryptocurrency or Keystroke loggers.

• Ransomware- they operate by encrypting stored files and demanding ransom payment for the decryption. Typically, users lose their files as well as money in such a case
• Cryptocurrency miner- these are designed to mine cryptocurrency from the infected device by utilizing the CPU and GPU resources. The process diminishes the general working performances and might even cause the permanent system crashes or freezes
• Keystroke loggers- they allow the crooks to log to the keystroke, gather the information like emails, logins and passwords and banking credentials and use them in various fraudulent activities that can cost on privacy and can cause identity exposure

If you somehow clicked on anywhere the email that you receive, you might probably install any such infection on your device. To prevent any big issues as result of this, you should run a scan to the infected device in order to detect and delete RedCross Email Scam from it.

How to prevent computer infection through it?

You can prevent the infection if you ignore the attachments provided or have not clicked on them. The problem is that the emails having such infectious attachments are clipped into appear similar way like other original emails. However, there is some distinguishing factor that can differentiate the spam emails from other original. The most common way to detect whether the email you receive is spam one is to look whether the senders’ addresses. If these seem suspicious, unknown, there is a major chance them being scam one. Another way is to read the letter provided with. Typically, the content the letters have, include a lot of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. You must not click on the attachments provided on such emails as the infection typically happen soon after the clicking is done. Take the help of Microsoft version 2010 or later versions that have the protective view mode to prevent files from downloading malware. For betterment, employ some antivirus tool that provides adequate protection to the device.

Remove RedCross Email Scam

Manual malware removal guide is provided below in step by step manner. Follow it so that you will not find any trouble during removal process. You can use some reputable antivirus tool to automatically remove RedCross Email Scam from the device.

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 RedCross Email Scam:

Remove the related items of RedCross 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 RedCross 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 (RedCross 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 RedCross 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 RedCross 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 RedCross 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 RedCross 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 RedCross 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.