The Bucks Club Scam - How to remove

The Bucks Club is a browser extension that enables you to rent your Facebook account for advertising. It promises to make you money – but it’s likely to simply get your Facebook account banned. On top of that, The Bucks Club gets access to a lot of your personal data that could be misused. It’s best to stay away from it and any other account renting schemes.

By the way, The Bucks Club is totally unrelated to the similarly named golf club.

The Bucks Club in short:

Type of threat	Scam, adware.
How The Bucks Club spreads	Pop-ups and redirects online, classifieds, social media comments and posts, browser pop-ups and redirects.
Problems and risks	Your Facebook account may get banned, your personal information ends up in the hands of dishonest actors, adware or a trojan may get installed on your device.
How to remove The Bucks Club	Delete the extension The Bucks Club, find and remove other malware (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and other programs), change your passwords, stop advertising on your Facebook account.

How The Bucks Club works

“Get rich quick”

The Bucks Club is a Chrome browser extension. It promises to help you make up to $500 per month from just using your computer normally. But you should think really hard about whether you want to do this. The Bucks Club is a type of Facebook virus where dishonest actors abuse the platform by misusing your personal account. They likely do this to get around being banned.

I initially found The Bucks Club on Businesspreesite.club. Normally, Businesspreesite.club is a phishing site – phishing means tricking people into revealing their usernames, passwords, and other personal information. Specifically, Businesspreesite.club shows a fake Facebook login box. If you type your email and password, Businesspreesite.club can record your credentials and they can be abused by the people behind this site.

In addition, Businesspreesite.club promotes a cryptocurrency trading scam with the help of fake news articles. It works similarly to Worldwide-breakingnews.com.

But in my case, Businesspreesite.club offered me a chance to make $25 every week for absolutely no work if I install The Bucks Club.

A privacy nightmare

The Bucks Club uses your Facebook account for marketing. It requires that account to be personal, old, and have a lot of friends. The Bucks Club can use your Facebook account however it needs to.

But this is risky. Facebook has a lot of rules on how marketing should be done. Page names must be correct. Promos must include disclaimers. Friend tagging is not allowed. Buttons and links mustn’t be misleading. There are many categories of products that are restricted or cannot be advertised. And if The Bucks Club breaks any rules, your account is at stake. Indeed, The Bucks Club exists because the people behind it require a constant supply of genuine Facebook accounts.

In addition, The Bucks Club can read and change your data on any website that you visit, not just Facebook. It can also display notifications. According to The Bucks Club’s terms of service and privacy policy, here are a few things it can do:

• read your search terms,
• the advertisements you see and ads you click on,
• your general location,
• it may share this information with third parties,
• it may allow third parties to show ads through The Bucks Club.

Even just signing up for The Bucks Club requires you to provide a lot of personal information (name, address, phone number).

A scam

First, The Bucks Club promises to deposit the money to your PayPal account, but it actually requires a GoLance account. With all the data sharing and now this, The Bucks Club obviously doesn’t value your privacy.

You might still decide that your Facebook account is worth sacrificing, but there’s no guarantee that you will get your money. Some reviewers of The Bucks Club say they were notified that they got paid, however, some of them never got a PayPal transfer, one said that their PayPal payment got frozen. No wonder – The Bucks Club is equivalent to FBClub, FBForrent, MakeAdMoney, FBPesos, and other sites that are widely considered scams. A business like PayPal may not want to deal with scammers, so they might suspend suspicious payments.

Even if you’re desperate for money and don’t care much about your Facebook, The Bucks Club is probably not be worth your attention. You might get a few dollars if you’re lucky, but you lose control over your personal information, which could be harmful in the long term.

For example, what if the scammers don’t pay Facebook for the ads that they run through your account? You are the one stuck with the bill.

How to remove The Bucks Club

First, open your browser and remove The Bucks Club. It’s a browser extension like any other. You can remove The Bucks Club by right-clicking on its icon in your browser’s upper right corner or by going into extension settings (detailed instructions are below).

Next, you should scan your computer with an anti-malware application, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others. The Bucks Club might have redirected your browser to suspicious websites and got you to install an adware tool to make background advertising easier. Did the people behind The Bucks Club get you to install Teamviewer or another remote access program?

Finally, change your Facebook password. You might also want to change your email account’s password. Then, delete your business page and advertising account. Do not allow The Bucks Club’s ads to continue running. You can ask Facebook support for help.

If you only ever ran into The Bucks Club or a similar site but didn’t provide your information, don’t worry – you’re fine. If you did provide your information but haven’t heard back, you are probably okay, too. Change your Facebook password still, and scan your computer with an anti-malware app, but you are probably safe.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove The Bucks Club Scam 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 The Bucks Club Scam, 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 The Bucks Club Scam 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 Bucks Club Scam, 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.