Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways - How to remove

The new iPhone 12 is an attractive phone, so a chance to win one can be very exciting. Unfortunately, scammers set up fake iPhone 12 giveaways in order to trick people into revealing personal information, signing up for expensive services, and downloading junkware.

Be careful of iPhone 12 giveaway scams. Only participate in giveaways that are organized by reputable people and companies.

About the iPhone 12 giveaway scam:

Type of threat	Scam, phishing, adware.
What the iPhone 12 giveaway scams look like	Offers to win an iPhone 12 that are not associated with a reputable company, have no terms of service, and ask you to complete tasks before you can get your prize.
Dangers of the scam	Your time is wasted, your private data might be revealed to scammers, you might be forced to download suspicious apps, you might sign up for unwanted paid services.
How to avoid iPhone 12 giveaway scams	Be careful and always make sure that the giveaway is legitimate, block malicious websites and ads with ad blockers, if you find malware, remove it and protect your computer with security programs (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.).

Examples of fake iPhone 12 giveaways

While there are real, legitimate iPhone 12 giveaways being done, there are also many fake ones. And you can expect fake giveaways to outnumber the real ones.

Fake giveaways for the iPhone 12 can be found on social media sites, promoted by suspicious accounts (such as fake celebrity accounts). They can also show up as notification ads, spam messages, emails. They might be advertised on certain websites. But I found today’s examples in internet search results.

Just search for iPhone giveaways – the scams are right there in Google (or another search engine) results.

Fake iPhone 12 giveaways show up as PDFs, forum posts, as well as more legitimate-looking promos. Here are a few examples:

The pages ask for your name and email address. They might also ask you to pick out the desired color of your iPhone 12, as well as choose the amount of memory that you want.

Some of these fake giveaways even show timers, stock going down in real time, and fake comments.

It’s common for fake giveaways and similar scams to impersonate trusted companies, such as Amazon and Facebook, so keep that in mind.

What do the scams want?

Of the scams I looked at today, there are two main ways that they end up:

• “Human verification required” tasks,
• screens to sign up for paid services.

The goal of the fake iPhone 12 giveaways is to hook people and pressure them into downloading malicious apps, signing up for paid services, and waste their time looking at advertisements. In the end, this makes money for the scammers who operate the fake giveaways. In a way, the iPhone 12 giveaway scams work like advertisements – they promote products and services (by lying to people).

A fake iPhone 12 giveaway might put on a show with fake loading bars and logs, but in the end, it always asks you something like this:

To avoid robot entries you MUST complete an offer from the list below to claim your free iPhone 12 Pro Series.. This page will then automatically unlock and ask for your shipping address.

Complete 1 of the offers to unlock the content.

The offers are tasks such as downloading apps and signing up for paid mobile services. These things cost money starting from a few dollars a week.

Some of the scams instead promoted online subscription services. Those cost around $3o or $6o a month.

How to avoid iPhone 12 giveaway scams

Be suspicious of giveaways. Always find out who is doing the giveaway. On the page, the should be terms of service and privacy policy – read them carefully.

Some of the iPhone 12 giveaway scams ask you for your personal information. Never give your personal and payment information if you aren’t 100% sure they’re in safe hands.

Since the scam may spread with ads, you can use adblockers to stop malicious ads. But malicious ads can be caused not just by the websites that you visit, but also by adware infections, such as browser hijackers. Use antivirus programs (such as Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.) to find and remove malware.

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How to remove Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways from macOS

Delete Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Fake iPhone 12 Giveaways, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.