GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware
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GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware, the full title 'GARDA (The Guardians of the Peace of Ireland and The National Crime Prevention Unit)', also known as GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Virus, is a malware threat found as ransomware that affects Irish computer users. GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware displays a fake legal pop-up alert designed and distributed to victimized computers by the Urausy Trojan. The Trojan blocks target PC users from accessing the desktop and the computer system by showing a deceptive image/pop-up notification 'Your computer has been blocked up for safety reasons listed below'. The intimidating pop-up warning message of GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware speaks on behalf of The Guardians of the Peace of Ireland and The National Crime Prevention Unit, and blames victims for breaching certain laws. The tricky notification of GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware states that the computer user has been downloading and spreading copyrighted content, or other material associated with child pornography, zoophilia and rape, sending spam email messages to other PC users and visiting illegitimate websites that contain forbidden or pirated content. The scary pop-up alert of GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware asks the attacked computer user to pay a fine of 100 Euro via the prepaid payment systems Ukash and Paysafecard to unlock the computer and evade imprisonment. Do not pay the fine because the pop-up alert of GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware is a hoax created by fraudsters to pilfer money from innocent PC users. You should use a genuine security application to uninstall the relevant Trojan and, therefore, rid the infected computer of GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware.
Messages
The following messages associated with GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware were found:
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GARDA
The Guardians of the Peace of Ireland The National Crime Prevention unit ATTENTION! Your computer has been blocked up for safety reasons listed below. You are accused of viewing/storage and/or dissemination of banned pornography (child pornography/zoophilia/rape etc). You have violated World Declaration on non-proliferation of child pornography. You are accused of committing the crime envisaged by Article 161 of Ireland criminal law. Article 161 of Ireland criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 5 to 11 years. Also, you are suspected of violation of "Copyright and Related rights Law" (downloading of pirated music, video, warez) and of use use and/or dissemination of copyrighted content. Thus, you are suspected of violation of Article 148 of Ireland criminal law. Article 148 of Commonwealth of Ireland criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 3 to 7 years or 150 to 550 basic amounts fine. It was from your computer, that unauthorised access has been stolen to information of State importance and to data close for public Internet access. Unauthorised access could have been arranged by yourself purposely on mercenary motives, or without your knowledge and consent, provided your computer could have been affected by malware. Consequently, you are suspected - until the investigation is held - of innocent infringement of Article 215 of Commonwealth of Ireland criminal law ("Law on negligent reckless disregard of computers and computer aids"). Article 215 of Ireland criminal law provides for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for terms from 5 to 8 years and/or up to AUD $100,000 fine. Further after information of your personal computer was examined, it was found that your personal computer has been regularly used for bulk-spamming either arranged by yourself purposely on mercenary motives, or with ought your knowledge and consent, provided your computer could have been affected my malware. Bulk-spamming is a way to disseminate malware of banned pornography. Consequently you are suspected - until the investigation is held - of innocent infringement of Article 301 of Commonwealth of Ireland criminal law ("On bulk-spamming and malware (virus) dissemination"). Article 301 of Ireland criminal law provide for the punishment of deprivation of liberty for term from 5 years, and up to AUD $250,000 fine. Please, mind that both your personal identities and location are well identified, and criminal case can be opened against you in course of 96 hours as for commission of crimes per above Articles. Criminal case can be submitted to court. However, pursuant to Amendments to Commonwealth of Ireland criminal law dated july 10, 2013, and according to Declaration on Human Rights, your disregard of law may be interpreted as unintended (if you had no incidents before) and no arraignment will follow. However, it is a matter of whether you have paid the fine of the Treasury (to the effect of initiatives aimed at protection of cyberspace). The penalty set must be paid in course of 48 hours as the breach. On expiration of the term, 48 hours that follow will be used for automatic collection of data on yourself and your misconduct, and criminal case will be opened against you. Amount of fine is 100 Euro. You can settle the fine with Ukash or PaySafeCard vouchers. As soon as the money arrives to the Treasury account, your computer will be unblocked in course of 24 hours. Then in 7 day term you should remedy the breaches associated with your computer. Otherwise your computer will be blocked up again and criminal case will be opened against yourself (with no option to pay fine). Please mind that you should enter only verified pass of vouchers and abstain from caching out of vouchers once used for the fine payment. If erroneous pass were entered, or if attempt was made to cancel vouchers after transaction then, apart from above breaches, you will be charged with fraud (Article 377 of Ireland criminal law, 1 to 3 years of imprisonment) and criminal case will be opened. |
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