Remove Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP Scam

Quick methods to delete Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP Scam

Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP Scam is a rogue website that is designed to look like legitimate survey from Amazon. It shows a pop-up in order to deceive visitors into believing that once they participate in a survey then can gain some prize. Before going through it, you may know that such surveys are used to extract sensitive information. Users encounter such type of pages when they get opened via other untrustworthy sites, intrusive ads or by potentially unwanted applications.

Cyber criminals behind Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP Scam websites tries to trick users to take participate in a survey and after completing that they will receive a prize. Instead this, this site offered iPhone 11 Pro as a prize. To complete such survey, users are asked to answer some questions as well as also provide them personal as well as sensitive information related to email address, name, surname, credit card details, bank account details and other similar information.

Once provided, scammers behind this misuse those data in order to steal identities, make fraudulent purchases and for other malicious purposes. In one way or another, such type of sites should be ignored immediately. PUAs can also be designed not only to promote scam sites like this but also collect various information and feed users with advertisements. Regarding this, such apps are also designed to gather details relating to users browsing habits. In some cases, it might gather your sensitive details as well.

Text presented in “Amazon loyalty program” scam page:

Amazon loyalty program
Congratulations!
Today, 18 September 2020, you have been chosen to participate in our survey. It will only take you a minute and you will receive a fantastic prize: an iPhone 11 Pro!

 

Each Friday we randomly choose 10 users to give them a chance to win amazing prizes. Today’s prize is a iPhone 11 Pro! There will be 10 lucky winners. This promotion is only valid for United Kingdom!

 

This survey aims to improve the quality of service for our users and your participation will be rewarded 100%.

 

You only have 0 minutes and 00 seconds, to answer this survey!

 

Hurry up, the number of prizes available is limited

Distribution methods of PUAs:

• Email spam messages: It can come in your computer from malicious email messages which contain infected attachment.
• Freeware or shareware: It can get install into your PC from bundles of free software packages which you have downloaded from internet.
• Downloaded media files: If you are downloaded movies, music and other files into your system from infected sources then you might get lots of junk files and viruses.
• Fake software updates: If you are using pirated software in your machine then you might gets lots of malicious infections.

Remove Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP Scam

Manual malware removal instructions might be hectic and time-consuming as it requires lots of time to detect and delete this nasty threat. So, in such situation we recommend our users to use some reputable antivirus removal tool in order to remove Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP Scam and all PUAs as early as possible from the system to avoid from further damage.

Short description:

Name: Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP Scam

Type: Social engineering, Fraud, Phishing, Scam

Fake Claim: Users can win iPhone 11 Pro (or other prize)

Symptoms: Fake error messages, fake system warnings, pop-up errors, hoax computer scan.

Distribution methods: Compromised websites, rogue online pop-up ads, potentially unwanted applications.

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

Removal: In order to remove PUAs, you are recommended to use some reliable removal tool such as Spyhunter.

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 Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP Scam:

Remove the related items of Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP 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 Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP 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 (Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP 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 Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP 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 Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP 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 Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP 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 Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP 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 Amazon Loyalty Program POP-UP 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.