Remove Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam Virus

Tips To Delete Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam PUP

Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam is a deceptive marketing technique used by potent cyber criminals to generate online revenues from rookie users. This scam has multiple variants. Typically, in this scam, users are redirected to a phishing site where they are claimed that they have a chance to win a prize. We emphasize that ‘Spin The Wheel” has nothing to do with Amazon, Apple, Depot or any other company mentioned by it. Moreover, prizes and rewards offered by this scam are not true. As stated earlier, the main motive of the scammers is to generate online income by abusing users’ belief.

More About Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam:

Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam is disguised as an allegiance program. Visitors are either told that they have a chance to accept a price for their constant support of the sponsors’ product or they have been selected to obtain rewards from the fake program’s sponsors. All variants of the scam are disguised as luck wheels that visitors have to spin in order to win the reward. At the research time, users are claimed by the variants that they have won a “$1,000 Amazon Gift Card”, “$100 Home Depot Gift Card”, or “iPhone 11” – depending on the scam’s version. Nonetheless, when users try to claim their prices, they are redirected to a different vicious domain.

Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam or other similar schemes can misuse users’ trust in several ways. In general, such types of scams request users to make a variety of monetary transactions. People might be asked to pay shipping or other fees to accept the nonexistent price. Moreover, such schemes usually redirect users to phishing web pages where their every action is monitored. Redirects to sites that promote such fraudulent scams are often caused by adware or potentially unwanted program that is already running inside the compromised systems.

Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam virus gathers its victims’ browsing-related information and shares them with third-parties. These details are utilized by the advertisers for generating eye-catching advertisements in order to make people more eager to click on them and earn revenues via pay-per-click mechanism. And thus, during the presence of this hazardous adware inside your PC, you are bombarded with thousands of annoying ads and pop-ups all the time which interrupts your web sessions badly. And thus, a quick Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam virus removal is highly required.

Quick Glance

Name: Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam

Type: Phishing, Scam, Adware, Potentially unwanted program

Short Description: Claims visitors can win a prize/reward, displays annoying advertisements, Redirects users to unknown domains, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and make online profits for the developers. 

Symptoms: Fake security alerts, error messages, Constant appearance of intrusive commercial contents, slowness of infected system’s performance.

Related Domain: rewardstoget.com

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), malicious pop-ups ads, fake flash player installers.

Damage: Web browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), exhibition of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites.

Removal: To get rid of this infection and other malware threats, our security researchers recommend scanning your device with an effective anti-malware tool.

How Does This PUP Enter Your System?

Sometimes, potentially unwanted programs can be downloaded by clicking on malicious ads that are designed to run certain scripts. Nevertheless, most of the times, they are spread through “bundling” technique along with regular software. This usually occurs when people download freeware from third-party sites like softonic.com, spft32.com, cnet.com, download.com etc. and then install it using the “Quick” or “Recommended” mode sets.  These options hide the tools that are added to the package which also get installed without letting users’ knowledge.

To prevent this, choose only official sites and direct links to download applications and avoid using Peer-to-Peer networks, third-party downloaders, installers, unofficial sites etc. Additionally, install any software using “Custom” or “Advanced” configuration settings where you can opt out all the components that give a concerning look and pick only the one that you want. In case your machine is already infected with this PUP, you must remove Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam virus from the machine without wasting any time.

Text Presented In The First Variant of Scam:

Initial page:

LOYALTY PROGRAM

Monday, January 25, 2021

Congratulations!

Today you are lucky!

Every Monday we select 7 lucky users to receive prizes from our sponsors. Spin the wheel to see which prize you can claim!

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Second page:

Congratulations!

You can claim your $100 Home Depot Gift Card!

1. Click “Claim Now” bellow. You will be redirected to our sponsor’s website
2. On the sponsor’s website, enter your name and surname, as well as the shipping address to claim your prize

IMPORTANT: This prize is only available while supplies last!

Offer valid for 4 minutes and 49 seconds

$100 Home Depot Gift Card

Accepted in all US Home Depot stores and online

Available: 1

Claim Now

Text Presented In The 2nd Variant of Scam:

Initial page:

LOYALTY PROGRAM

Monday, January 25, 2021

Congratulations!

Today you are lucky!

Every Monday we select 7 lucky users to receive prizes from our sponsors. Spin the wheel to see which prize you can claim!

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Second page:

Congratulations!

You can claim your $1,000 Amazon Gift Card!

Click “Claim Now” bellow. You will be redirected to our sponsor’s website

On the sponsor’s website, enter your name and surname, as well as the shipping address to claim your prize

IMPORTANT: This prize is only available while supplies last!

Offer valid for 4 minutes and 52 seconds

$1,000 Amazon Gift Card

Spend $1,000 on goods and services on Amazon.com

Available: 1

Claim Now

Text Presented In The 3rd Variant of Scam:

First pop-up:

Congratulations Apple user!

We would like to thank you for your continuing support for our products – so we are offering you a chance to receive an exclusive reward

Click “OK” to claim your special prize

Good Luck!

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Background page:

Apple Rewards

Congratulations!

Every Monday we select 7 lucky Apple users to receive a special reward. Spin the wheel to claim your special prize.

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Second pop-up:

Congratulations!

(1) Apple iPhone 11 is reserved for you!

To claim your prize, click the button bellow and verify your information on the next page.

Claim Your Prize

Your prize will expire in 5:09

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 Spin The Wheel POP-UP Scam:

Remove the related items of Spin The Wheel 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 Spin The Wheel 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 (Spin The Wheel 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 Spin The Wheel 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 Spin The Wheel 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 Spin The Wheel 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 Spin The Wheel 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 Spin The Wheel 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.