I have never had a McAfee product on my systems. I have had similar spam emails supposedly from McAfee.

The odds of finding a Norton user are great. These spammers know nothing about whether you have a Norton product or not. So anyone trying to catch these spammers is playing wack-a-mole. Then after a day or two, they abandon the email address they used to send that spam and they start using another email address. The issue with these 'Norton' scams is that the sender will blast out hundreds of thousands of these emails hoping someone will reply. All an app can do is try to help filter this spam. No one can stop spam from being sent to your inbox. I received a similar one for McAfee, which I have never had on my systems. So it it like playing Wack-a-mole to try to stop these scammers.Įven if you never had a Norton product in your life, you are still likely to get one of these scam emails. You have probably noticed that the sender always has a different email address. You cannot stop these emails from being sent. If they get even a few replies, it is free money to them. I receive similar emails claiming to be for my non existent McAfee subscription. The odds of them finding a Norton user are quite high, and then the odds that the recipient's subscription is close to renewal are again high. They send this email to thousands of email addresses. The scammer does not know your subscription expiry date. If you call that number you’re going to reach a criminal who is waiting for you to call them back.2. Rather than clicking the link, which you should never do, you should never pick up the phone and call the sender company and verify they’re sending you that info. Usually, a bogus address will have misspellings and numbers that have nothing to do with the person or organization that says that they’re sending that info to you. Because it’s lodged in the back of your mind, it’s going to make you think maybe this is legitimate. You might have had Norton antivirus years ago, but you don’t anymore.

They’re just trying to get your attention. Crooks want to trick you into thinking you already paid for something. It reads your payment of $349 was processed successfully for Norton virus protection software. Viewers tell On Your Side a classic email scam is back. (KY3) - The email scam circulating again claims you have already paid for virus protection on your computer.

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