Hello, there. I’ve got the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus warning on my iPhone 6 plus for couple of days. Few days ago, I was searching for a movie on my Safari. A pop-up popped on my screen telling me that I could find interesting movies on that website for free. It was wonderful that I could watch movie for free. However, things went bad side after I clicked on that pop-up window. I got my Safari blocked by Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus warning message. I was asked to pay for CAD 100$ to unblocked my Internet. I rebooted my iPhone immediately. But it was no use at all. How can I reuse my iPhone again? Is that warning message real? How to remove the virus from my Safari and get it worked again? Any help will be appreciated.
“I got a pop-up warning message from Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus and I was asking to pay CAD 100$ via Ukash or Paysafecard. It says ATTENTION! Your apple id and your mobile device have been blocked for safety reasons. If you let 24 hours pass without payment, all photos movies games documents will be deleted and you will become the subject of criminal prosecution without the right to pay the fine and the possibility of unlocking your apple id express. What should I do?”
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus (also called RCMP virus) is a vicious ransomware that is created by malicious cyber criminals with the purpose of blocking targeted android device and trying to extort money from their users as much as it can. This virus aims to attack all android device users in Canada no matter you are using an IOS X phone or iPad (all models of iPhone and iPad) or an android system device (android phone and tablet of all brands, such as Samsung, LG, HTC, Sony, etc.) This ransomware was first created to mainly hack computer users around the world. But now, with widely use of android device, cyber scammers target android device market as their main market. Once this ransomware infected your android device, it will show you a malicious actual alert on your infected android device screen:
“ATTENTION!
Your device is blocked due to at least one of the reasons specified below.
You have been violating ‘Copyright and Related Rights Law o (Video, Music, Software) and illegally using or distributing copyrighted content, thus infringing Article 128 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
Article 128 of the Criminal Code provides for a fine of 200 to 500 minimal wages or a deprivation of liberty for 2 to 8 years.
You have been viewing or distributing prohibited Pornographic content (Child Porno, Zoophilia and etc). Thus violating
Article 202 of the Criminal Code of Canada. Article 202 of the Criminal Code provides for a deprivation of liberty for four to 12 years.
(…)
Article 208 of the Criminal Code provides for a fine of up to CAD $100 and/or a deprivation of liberty for 4 to 9 years.”
Firstly of all, you have to know that Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus is a scam virus. No one wants to get into prison. Cyber criminals know well the fear of your heart. So they use means of intimidation to scare you by pretending to be the legitimate country government sending you the warning message and demanding you paying the fine. All this information and routine looks like “real” warning alert sent by the government. As a matter of fact, all the information is fake and non-existent message. Cyber criminals create this ransomware to trick your money. If you do pay the fine, then it can be said that you are falling into the scammers’ trap. The real police will not block your android device by this virus if you did do something against the low of the country. The penalty is demanded by the scammers, but isn’t the real police. You don’t need to pay for that non-existent penalty. You should keep yourself calm down and then figure out a way to remove Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus from the infected android device as early as you can.
1. Once infected, it will block the screen of your device immediately and make you do nothing with it.
2. Once infected, it will send you a fake notification which states that you violate the local laws and be required to pay for a fine.
3. You are warned that your picture has been taken and will be sent to court if you don’t pay for the payment.
4. You are told that your basic information are recorded in the warning massage.
Note: Once your tablet/phone is infected by this malicious virus, you should delete it immediately. Since if you leave it in your tablet/phone with the passage of time, there will be a big threat to your financial security and the damaging of your android system. In order to protect the tablet/phone from being ruined by the Virus and in case of losing money, measures should be taken to get rid of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Scam Virus from your android tablet/phone as soon as possible.
Even though the warning of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Scam Virus seems to be real and legitimate. As a contrary, it is a 100% fake scam. It is designed by the cyber criminals to trick the innocent smartphone users and set them into a panic and then threaten them to pay for the ransom erroneously. If your phone gets infected, your camera may turn on automatically and then takes a picture of yours immediately. Then it will mislead you that your picture has been taken and will be sent to the police, or it will tell you that the police is monitoring all the things you are doing now. The fake warning will inform you that your phone will be locked forever and block you from doing anything as well, the only way to unblock your device is to pay a fine within hours. How a nasty virus it is! It is skilled in using scare tactic to trick money from the innocent users. Thus, once your phone is infected, you must remove this Virus from your android device immediately.
Step 1: Restart the safe mode on your infected device.
For Samsung tablet: Power it off, and then power it on. During startup and when you see the Samsung Logo screen, press and hold the Volume Down key until you can see safe mode writing below the screen at the left hand angle of the screen.
For Samsung Galaxy S6 S5 S4: 1. Power down. 2. Turn on and repeatedly tap the soft-button for “Menu.”
For Samsung Galaxy S3 and others: 1. Power down. 2. Turn on, then press and hold Volume Down (Galaxy S3 and others), Volume Up (HTC One and others), or Volume Down and Volume Up together (various Motorola devices) when the vendor’s logo appears.
Note: “Safe Mode” on Phone starts up without loading any third-party add-ons and different devices have different ways to access safe mode.
If you have managed to select Safe Mode successfully, you will see the text “Safe Mode” at the bottom left corner of the screen. As the picture shows below:
Step 2: If you can find “Safe Mode” on the left hand corner, that means your tablet/phone is in safe mode already, please contact an expert for further removal instruction.
Note: The above provided removal guide is so complicated. If you are not an Android Phone repair expert, do not try by yourself. In case you lose your confidential data and photos, an expert is needed during the process of manual removal.Yoocare/Yoosecurity experts can provide the most professional service for you for manual removal.
Sum Up
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus is similar to other ransomwares (Cybercrime Investigation Department Virus, Canadian security intelligence service virus, FBI Moneypak Virus, and so on) which block users’ android device to stop them from browsing or using the infected android device normally. This scam virus locks your android device when you visit a phishing site, open a junk e-mail attachment, click on an unknown link or download an application from an unsafe source, especially after you jailbreak your android device. Once it locks your device, it will show you a threat warning message accusing you that your online activities break the law of Canada, such as viewing/storage and/or dissemination of banned pornography (child pornography/zoophilia/rape etc). You are demanded to pay CAD $100 via Ukash or Paysafecard with 24 hours. If you don’t pay the fine with the limited time, you will be sent to court and then get into jail for years. You must be so scared when you see all this information. You may want to die. Actually, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus is a bad ransomware. You will be fine if you remove this virus from your device immediately. Please don’t trust the warning message. Please don’t pay for the penalty. Action immediately when you see the warning. Remove the virus from your android phone/ tablet as soon as possible! YooCare Online Expert can walk you step by step to remove this scam virus unblock your screen shortly.
Suggestion: Manual removal is a skillful and risky job, if any mistakes are made during the removal process, you may damage your phone immediately. If you are not sure how to start, please contact YooCare PC experts 24/7 online for help right now.
Published by & last updated on July 12, 2016 4:15 am
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