Remove Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam

Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam Virus: Easy Delete Guide

Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam refers to a mass-scale operation during which thousands of phishing emails are sent by cyber criminals. These deceptive emails are disguised as notifications congratulating recipients on winning a lottery prize. However, the only motive of these spam letters is to deceive recipients into revealing their personal data in order to claim the fake prize. Targeting novice users with such malspam campaigns has become a common activity for cyber offenders. They just want to acquire their credentials that could be utilized for various deceptive purposes.

More About Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam:

The “Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam” letters have “Subject: Sveikiname nugalėtojas / Winner” as subject/title, may vary, and are written in English and Lithuanian. Recipients are claimed that their email address has been selected as the winner of the “Uplift International Charity Lottery Program”. It is stated that the receiver has won a 150,000.00 EUR reward. Recipients are then instructed to contact the “claim agent” for more details on the claim procedure. In the Lithuanian variant, apart from the fake agent’s phone number, it is mentioned that they only speak English.

The “Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam” letters request users to provide these details about themselves: full name, age, address, occupation, and phone numbers. The Lithuanian variant also mentions that the email was translated from English to this language automatically because the lottery is international. We highly emphasize that these emails are fake, and the details provided by them are false. Hence, the receivers have not won any rewards, and if they trust on these deceptive mails- they can experience multiple severe issues.

Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam is used to acquire personal and sensitive data. The main motive of this spam campaign is to generate profits for the scammers. Cyber criminals can sell the private information for monetary purposes or utilize to tailor personalized schemes. Moreover, this type of scams usually request users to pay in order to obtain the fake reward. For instance, they can be asked to pay fraudulent transactions, registration, shipping, storage, subscription, and similar fees. In addition, victims might be asked to transfer the amount via shady payment gateways, which work as phishing websites.

This means that the sites record finance-related information (e.g., credit card and banking account details, etc.). The recorded data can then be utilized for making deceptive transactions or online purchases. To summarize, if you trust the “Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam” letters, it can lead to severe privacy issues, identity theft, and significant monetary losses.

How Does Spam Campaign Get Spread?

Quite often, cyber criminals target those users whose systems are already infected with a trojan virus. This kind of PC threats generally infiltrate the targeted computers via spam emails that are sent by cyber criminals in thousands in a large-scale operation. These deceptive mails are presented as important letters from some reputable companies or other entities. Nonetheless, they generally contain vicious files which once executed, trigger the installation of malware.

The vicious file attached to phishing emails could be in multiple formats e.g., archive and executable files, Microsoft Office and PDF documents, JavaScript, etc. And therefore, avoid opening files of irrelevant or suspicious mails coming from unknown sources as you never know what they are containing. Also, avoid using dubious download sources (e.g., Peer-to-Peer sharing networks, unofficial and freeware sites, etc.), and rely only on official and trustworthy channels for software and products. But at the moment, you must remove Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam virus from the PC as early as possible.

Text Presented In The Scam Letters:

Subject: Congratulations Winner.

Congratulations Winner.

Your email address has just won € 150,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand) from the Uplift International Charity Program. Ref not available Sp / 229 / 0-01 / 07 / 5-02 / ES. Lucky No 9/11/13/24/40.

For more information and request processing procedures, contact our agent below;

CAPITAL CLAIM AGENCY

Mr. John Carlos.

Email: [email protected]

Tel: + 34-602-403-229 (I only speak English)

With your name, address, age, profession, phone numbers.

Send a reply to this e-mail: [email protected]

Note: This is an international lottery program, so this post has been automatically translated from English to Lithuanian.

Congratulations !!!

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Lottery Winner.

Your email address has just won € 150,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros) in the Uplift International Charity Lottery Program. Reference No: Sp / 229 / 0-01 / 07 / 5-02 / ES. Lucky No: 9/11/13/24/40.

For more information and claim procedure contact below.

CAPITAL CLAIM AGENCY

Mr. John Carlos.

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +34-602-403-229

Your full name, address, age, occupation, phone numbers

Send reply to this Email: [email protected]

Congratulations!!!.

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 Uplift International Charity Lottery Program Email Scam:

Remove the related items of Uplift International Charity Lottery Program 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 Uplift International Charity Lottery Program 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 (Uplift International Charity Lottery Program 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 Uplift International Charity Lottery Program 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 Uplift International Charity Lottery Program 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 Uplift International Charity Lottery Program 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 Uplift International Charity Lottery Program 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 Uplift International Charity Lottery Program 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.