Remove Coinbase Email Scam from PC

Simple methods to delete Coinbase Email Scam

Coinbase Email Scam is disguised as email from Coinbase regarding identity verification. It says that users are unable to login their Coinbase accounts until their identities are verified. To do so, recipients are instructed to login into your account on the provided website link that should only be opened by clicking on the “Verify Your Identity” button. Clearly, this scam is designed for the only motive to encourage innocent users into providing their personal credentials.

Text in the Coinbase malspam email:

Subject: Important Notice_ Please Verify Your Identity

Coinbase
Please Verify Your Identity
The ability to login your account has been disabled until we can further verify your identity, please this is for your account security. In order to unlock your account’s full funtionalities, please verify your identity by providing a valid ID document.

Please log into your Coinbase account below from a web browser to verify your identity. You will not be able to verify your identity from the Coinbase App.

Verify Your Identity
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© Coinbase 2020

In most cases, phishing emails are sent by scammers to trick users into providing them some personal and sensitive information including credit card details, username, email address, password and so on. Stolen accounts could be used to make fraudulent transactions, shared with third parties or misused for other malicious purposes. Most of the times, emails are disguised as a letter from Coinbase, a digital currency exchange. Simply said, these all are just scam. You should not provide your crucial credentials.

Despite this, this malware modifies crucial window registry, DNS configurations and PC arrangements and automatically gains the complete persistence over startups. Further, it blocks user’s access to important functions such as task manager, control panel, command prompt and so on. The threat also disables the installed firewall security measures to avoid its detection. Moreover, Trojans have capability to create their multiple copies by using different names and distribute them within the system. So, users are advised to delete this malware immediately.

How to spam campaigns infect system?

Email scam campaign cannot infect the system until the malicious documents attached on the emails is clicked by the recipients. However, it is not that much easy to detect the infectious attached file. Also, since scammers use important file such as executable file, MS Office document etc as an attachments, there is much possibility that the user must go for downloading them into the PC. Clicking on the malicious attachment will allow the infection to be downloaded and installed into the computer. Other sources used for the distribution of malware are fake software updating tools, cracked software, dubious software download channels, file sharing platform and by using many other techniques.

Tips to prevent threats like Coinbase Email Scam:

• Use powerful antivirus program to scan your system repeatedly.
• Never download free programs from unreliable sites.
• Avoid opening emails that contain attachments and are sent from suspicious addresses.
• Keep your Windows OS and other software up to date.
• Avoid visiting malicious or porn websites regularly.
• Download updates only from official websites and via direct links.

Remove Coinbase Email Scam

If you’ve already opened malicious attachments, then we recommend our users to install Spyhunter or other reliable antivirus tool that scans your PC and eliminate infiltrated malware soon from the system. As manual method might be lengthy and complicated process to perform malware removal.

Threat summary

Name: Coinbase Email Scam

Type: Phishing, Scam, Trojan, password stealing virus

Fake Claim: Recipient’s Coinbase account is disabled until identity is verified

Disguise: Email from Coinbase regarding identity verification

Symptoms: Unauthorized online purchases, 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: Use reliable antimalware tool to remove possible malware infection as soon as possible from the PC.

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 Coinbase Email Scam:

Remove the related items of Coinbase 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 Coinbase 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 (Coinbase 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 Coinbase 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 Coinbase 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 Coinbase 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 Coinbase 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 Coinbase 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.

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