Youtube Lottery Email Scam (Mac)

What is "Youtube Lottery Email Scam"?

"Youtube Lottery" Email Scam (Mac) is used to trick people into believing that they have won a YouTube lottery. The main goal of this scam is to encourage recipients to send their full names, addresses, mobile telephone numbers, and other information to scammers.

Since this is merely a scam and YouTube has nothing to do with it, we recommend that you ignore "Youtube Lottery". Do not send any details whatsoever to these scammers.

The email is designed to appear like an official notification from YouTube. Recipients are encouraged to open the attachment ("YOUTUBE PAYMENT 2019.pdf" file) and follow further instructions. The message in the attachment states that the recipient of this email was selected as a major customer - a YouTube users and winner of $970,000,000.

It is stated that this lottery is promoted by the International Lottery and Betting Institution. Additionally, recipients are encouraged not to share information about this email with anyone, since this might apparently cause fraudulent claims by unauthorized people.

To claim the prize, recipients are encouraged to send their full names, current contact addresses, and mobile numbers to claims@youtube-processing.icu. Once contacted, these scammers might request more details. Their objective is to obtain information and misuse it to generate revenue.

To avoid issues with privacy, browsing safety, or even identity theft, do not trust this email.

There are many different scams, many of which are designed to trick people into sending money to scammers. Some examples include "CVE-2019-1663", "Placed a malware on the xxx streaming site", and "This account was recently infected". Additionally, some scams are designed to infect computers. Scammers send emails that contain malicious attachments.

If opened, they download and install high-risk malware. Examples of malicious programs proliferated through emails include LokiBot, TrickBot, Emotet, and AZORult. Typically, cyber criminals spread malware that is designed to steal personal details, which could be used to generate revenue.

They attempt to trick people into installing programs that steal information such as logins, passwords, information relating to users' browsing habits, and so on. Victims usually experience problems such as data/financial loss, privacy issues, and so on. Do not trust these emails.

Threat Summary:

Name	Youtube Lottery spam
Threat Type	Phishing, Scam, Social Engineering, Fraud
Fake Claim	Scammers claim that recipients have won the YouTube lottery and ask them to send personal information
Symptoms	Unauthorized online purchases, changed online account passwords, identity theft, illegal access of the user's 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.
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How did potentially unwanted applications install on my computer?

Spam campaigns (emails) are used to proliferate malicious programs, however, they can only infect systems if the files attached to them are opened. Attachments contained in emails of this type are usually Microsoft Office documents, PDF documents, ZIP, RAR and other archive files, JavaScript files or executables (.exe files). If left unopened, they cannot do any damage.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

There are various ways to proliferate malicious programs. To avoid having them installed unintentionally, be careful with suspicious emails. If an email is received from an unknown, suspicious address, contains an attachment/web link, or is irrelevant, you should ignore it. All software should be downloaded from official websites.

Other sources such as P2P (Peer-to-Peer) networks, unofficial pages, third party downloaders and so on, should not be trusted. Installed software must be updated properly, using implemented tools (or functions) provided by official software developers. It is not safe to activate installed programs or operating systems via third party activation tools ('cracks').

These are illegal and are often used to distribute malware (download and install malicious programs). Computers are safer if reputable anti-virus or anti-spyware suites are installed. Also scan systems for viruses regularly. If your computer is already infected with PUAs, we recommend running a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus for macOS to automatically eliminate them.

Text presented in the email:

Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOUTUBE LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION.

YouTube Official Notification

YouTube - Board Members wishes to congratulate you.
Attached is your prize winning Notification letter for your payment.

Yours sincerely,

Eric Harman
Director YouTube Foundation

© 2019 YouTube LLC, San Bruno, California, United States

Screenshot of the text in the attached file ("YOUTUBE PAYMENT 2019.pdf"):

Text in this PDF document:

YouTube, LLC
Website:
www.youtube.com

We wish to congratulate you on this note for being selected as a major customer this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of YouTube search engine and the YouTube ancillary services and confirmed by our co-sponsors Visa*/MasterCard* International. YouTube earns its profit mainly from advertising and Views, social networking, YouTube video sharing.

We are delighted to inform you of the ONLINE MEGA GRANT 2019 DRAW held on May 2019: Due to mix up of names & numbers the result were released on MAY/19/2019. Your eMail ID attached to ticket number: 809976 with serial number: 9912 drew lucky numbers: 4-18-21-27-32-37 with bonus ball 45 which consequently won in the 3rd category.

Therefore, we present & approved you the winner of the sum of NINE HUNDRED & SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($970,000,00USD). Congratulations!!! This online program was designed & promoted by US INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY & BETTING INSTITUTION ACROSS NATION.

To enable us proceed with your claims, this information must be kept away from public to avoid unwarranted abuse of the program or fraudulent claims by unauthorized person(s). We hereby, asked for the reconfirmation of your Full names, Current contact address and Mobile number along with your eMail ID for proper verification.

Contact & Forward the above listed details to your claims agent: Dr. Albert Osborne.

eMail: claims@youtube-processing.icu

YouTube values your right to privacy! Your information M 100% secured and will be used exclusively for the purpose of this grant only.

Congratulations from the Staff & Members of YouTube and YouTube Board. Sincerely,

Susan D. Wojcic1d
Chief Executive Officer of
YouTube.

©2019 YouTube LLC

All fight reserved. This email was sent from a notification email address. The information in this email is confidential and legally privileged. h is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). Please consider the environment.

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Quick menu:

• What is "Youtube Lottery Email Scam"?
• STEP 1. Remove PUA related files and folders from OSX.
• STEP 2. Remove rogue extensions from Safari.
• STEP 3. Remove rogue add-ons from Google Chrome.
• STEP 4. Remove potentially unwanted plug-ins from Mozilla Firefox.

Video showing how to remove adware and browser hijackers from a Mac computer:

Potentially unwanted applications removal:

Remove potentially unwanted applications from your "Applications" folder:

Click the Finder icon. In the Finder window, select "Applications". In the applications folder, look for "MPlayerX", "NicePlayer", or other suspicious applications and drag them to the Trash. After removing the potentially unwanted application(s) that cause online ads, scan your Mac for any remaining unwanted components.

Remove adware-related files and folders

Click the Finder icon, from the menu bar. Choose Go, and click Go to Folder...

Check for adware generated files in the /Library/LaunchAgents/ folder:

In the Go to Folder... bar, type: /Library/LaunchAgents/

In the "LaunchAgents" folder, look for any recently-added suspicious files and move them to the Trash. Examples of files generated by adware - "installmac.AppRemoval.plist", "myppes.download.plist", "mykotlerino.ltvbit.plist", "kuklorest.update.plist", etc. Adware commonly installs several files with the exact same string.

Check for adware generated files in the ~/Library/Application Support/ folder:

In the Go to Folder... bar, type: ~/Library/Application Support/

In the "Application Support" folder, look for any recently-added suspicious folders. For example, "MplayerX" or "NicePlayer", and move these folders to the Trash.

Check for adware generated files in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ folder:

In the Go to Folder... bar, type: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

In the "LaunchAgents" folder, look for any recently-added suspicious files and move them to the Trash. Examples of files generated by adware - "installmac.AppRemoval.plist", "myppes.download.plist", "mykotlerino.ltvbit.plist", "kuklorest.update.plist", etc. Adware commonly installs several files with the exact same string.

Check for adware generated files in the /Library/LaunchDaemons/ folder:

In the "Go to Folder..." bar, type: /Library/LaunchDaemons/

In the "LaunchDaemons" folder, look for recently-added suspicious files. For example "com.aoudad.net-preferences.plist", "com.myppes.net-preferences.plist", "com.kuklorest.net-preferences.plist", "com.avickUpd.plist", etc., and move them to the Trash.

Scan your Mac with Combo Cleaner:

If you have followed all the steps correctly, your Mac should be clean of infections. To ensure your system is not infected, run a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus. Download it HERE. After downloading the file, double click combocleaner.dmg installer. In the opened window, drag and drop the Combo Cleaner icon on top of the Applications icon. Now open your launchpad and click on the Combo Cleaner icon. Wait until Combo Cleaner updates its virus definition database and click the "Start Combo Scan" button.

Combo Cleaner will scan your Mac for malware infections. If the antivirus scan displays "no threats found" - this means that you can continue with the removal guide; otherwise, it's recommended to remove any found infections before continuing.

After removing files and folders generated by the adware, continue to remove rogue extensions from your Internet browsers.

Remove malicious extensions from Internet browsers

Remove malicious Safari extensions:

Open the Safari browser, from the menu bar, select "Safari" and click "Preferences...".

In the preferences window, select "Extensions" and look for any recently-installed suspicious extensions. When located, click the "Uninstall" button next to it/them. Note that you can safely uninstall all extensions from your Safari browser - none are crucial for regular browser operation.

• If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Safari.

Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "More Tools" and click "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious extensions, select these entries and click "Remove".

• If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Google Chrome.

Remove malicious extensions from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window) and select "Add-ons and themes". Click "Extensions", in the opened window locate all recently-installed suspicious extensions, click on the three dots and then click "Remove".

• If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Mozilla Firefox.

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