The Win (1) One Exclusive Prize! Scam - How to remove

The One Exclusive Prize scam is a scheme used to trick people to sign up for subscriptions by promising them valuable gifts. One Exclusive Prize sites first tell you that you won something (a phone, a gift card, etc.) only to have you sign up (with your credit card details and other personal information) for some suspicious site.

In short about One Exclusive Prize:

Type of threat	Scam.
Dangers of the One Exclusive Prize pop-ups	Tricks people into revealing their personal data, gets people to sign up for reward sites and spend money on them, promises prizes but does not deliver.
How the scam works	Steals the look of trusted websites, shows a countdown timer to rush people, appears in full-screen pop-up ads.
How to avoid One Exclusive Prize ads	Block malicious sites, block unwanted notifications, use antivirus programs (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.) to remove adware from your device.

The goal of One Exclusive Prize

One Exclusive Prize is a pop-up template that goes roughly like this:

Thank you!
Results of Lucky Draw:
You have a chance to win (1) One Exclusive Prize!
Congratulations, User!

Your phone is chosen randonmly in our lucky draw among 493,329 users! You have a chance to win one out of three gifts below!

ACT NOW, or your spot shall be given to the next lucky user!
You only have 3 minutes 22 seconds to make your choice!

Then when you click the Continue button, you’re redirected to RewardSpot, PromotionLineUSA, Amarktflow, or another site that exists to trick people to spend their money on stuff that they don’t need. Really, if you look up the reviews of these sites online, a lot of them are people complaining that they never got the prize they were promised, despite following all the instructions.

One Exclusive Prize is not the only scam of this type – it’s easy enough to see its similarities to the Congratulations device user scam, the iPhone XS scam, and those fake Amazon surveys. An easy survey, a quick guess, and you win a very valuable prize, now just please sign up with all of your personal data and payment information.

How the scam tricks people

Though One Exclusive Prize is immediately obvious as a scam to some, it’s only because it’s done so often. The internet is full of these malicious pages. And they must be successful, or else scammers wouldn’t be making new ones all the time.

One Exclusive Prize takes a few steps to try to appear legitimate:

• Facebook-like layout,
• artificial urgency.

One Exclusive Prize steals Facebook's look to make people instinctively trust it. Even though One Exclusive Prize does not mention any social media site by name, scammers aren’t shy about using the look and name of any company that they know people trust. Oh, and some scam sites have a bunch of fake comments at the bottom of the page that often have a Facebook-like layout, too.

When One Exclusive Prize counts down the time, it does that to prevent people from being careful. You probably don’t have the time to investigate something or to get someone to advise you when the seconds are ticking down so fast. Especially when the prizes are so valuable. Scammers love to use timers.

It would not make One Exclusive Prize real even if it showed your IP, your location, and other personal data. Sites get that information very easily and it does not mean anything.

How to stop seeing One Exclusive Prize pop-ups

One Exclusive Prize scams are advertised online, mostly on sites that do not have security standards. Some sites agree to advertise with low-reputation ad-networks that work with malicious advertisers. It’s good for all of them – the site, the ad-network, and the advertiser – because they all get to make money. But it takes advantage of innocent users.

You can’t know when and where the One Exclusive Prize scam will show up. Infringing (pirating) sites tend to have a lot more malicious ads than is normal, but even reputable sites can be infected. To avoid One Exclusive Prize, you could use an ad-blocker or an anti-malware app – they could block malicious sites for you.

If you constantly see One Exclusive Prize pop-ups, that’s a sign that you’ve got an adware infection on your computer. Scan it with an antivirus app, such as Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, or something else. Remove suspicious programs and browser extensions. Check your browser notification settings and block notifications from all suspicious sites.

On the other hand, if the One Exclusive Prize pop-up appears whenever you visit a particular website, that site might have been infected. You could send an email to its administrators telling them about the problem.

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