My brand new Sumsung Note4 was blocked by Ministry of Public Safety Canada Virus stating that I was watching child porn and I sent terrorist like emails via spamming. The fact was that I did nothing illegal online. Anyway, now I can’t do anything on my phone, even sent message or make a phone call. It asked me to pay for $250, or it will send me to jail. I am so scared. What should I do now? Please help!
Ministry of Public Safety Canada Virus is another variant of Canadian Ukash scam virus that can not only infect computer users but also attack Android system users. This virus is spread so rapidly through the Internet. This virus is as similar as the previous RCMP virus and Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police virus which are mainly used to attack computer and android phone users located in Canada. But recently, most android phone users complained that their android phones are blocked by this virus as well without any reasons. So you can see that, now this virus may block your phone and then asked you to pay for a certain fine. If you don’t pay for the fine, it will block your phone and keep you from doing anything on it. Then your phone may become a “brick”.
This ransomware blocked your phone and then displayed a virus page which seems be legitimate as it even shows Canadian Government symbol. It may look like that it is the real police who accuse your illegal activities and then require money to unblock your phone. If not, it may tell you that all your online activities are recorded. It knows where you are located and who you are. It may come to your house to arrest you if you don’t pay for the fine within 24 hours. As soon as you see all this information on your phone, are you scared? Of cause, you may be scared. But here may tell you the truth that this is a scam virus which are not the real police. You note only one thing that the real police will not invade your privacy. This virus can infect your phone while you are visiting web sites or updating your application or downloading your videos on the Internet. Sometimes virus goes in a different way. It just blocked your phone without any reason, even though you did nothing on your phone. Anyway, your phone is blocked by Ministry of Public Safety Canada Virus. You should get rid of it immediately.
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 $500 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 phone is infected by this malicious virus, you should delete it immediately. Since if you leave it in your 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 phone from being ruined by the Virus and in case of losing money, measures should be taken to get rid of Ministry of Public Safety Canada Virus from your android phone as soon as possible.
Even though the warning of Ministry of Public Safety Canada 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 the $500 fine within 24 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 phone.
For Samsung Galaxy 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 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
Ministry of Public Safety Canada Virus is a scam virus tricking your money by blocking your whole phone or Internet browser. It may display fake information accusing that you look at child porn on the web or spread violent information on the Internet. Then the virus pretends to be the “real” police to punish you by asking you to pay for a scam fine about hundreds of money through the paypal. However, the fact shows that this is a scam virus. Even though you pay for the fine, your phone will still be blocked. Once it blocked your phone, it will not go away by itself or be removed by any antivirus tools. This virus can only be removed by manual. If you don’t remove it in time, it may record your data on your phone and then pilfer it to the hackers. In one word, if your phone has been blocked by this ransmware, please get rid of it without any hesitation.
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 4, 2015 9:35 pm
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