Yes, I was in the process of being awarded a $1,000 Walmart Gift Card from Walgreens via Amarktflow and wanted to see if Amarktflow was a legitimate entity before providing any of My information, beyond email, which they already had to send Me the initial email. Do I need to remove anything at this point?
I was in the process of being awarded a $1,000 Walmart Gift Card
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Amarktflow is the adware responsible for many online scams and campaigns that trick people by claiming about valuable prizes and rewards. There are no iPhones, gift cards or pricy shoes and money that can be obtained by filling your surveys or visiting certain pages.
If you encountered the one-time notification or a redirect, you can be safe and the machine is possibly not infected but may get in the future. You need to remove the threat completely if you experienced more redirects and pop-ups with commercial content. These are the main symptoms that can indicate about PUP infection.
However, if you already revealed your personal details to these scammers, you may be at risk of becoming a direct target in an extortion-based scam. Such adware programs can be designed to collect information for the advertisers and their malicious purposes.
You should get an anti-malware tool and scan the machine regardless because this way you can be sure that PUP is removed completely. If the AV program finds nothing malicious, you can be calm and use the machine without fear. Keeping such applications can make a huge difference because PUP, in most cases, gets blocked in advanced before entering the system.
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