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Emails sent to McAfee might be used to improve McAfee products, including training AI models to detect and fight email scams. For more information, see the McAfee privacy notice. Cybercriminals often send emails that appear to come from valid companies, to steal sensitive info.
McAfee provides free customer service and will never call to ask you to pay for Customer Service. If you receive calls that claim to be from McAfee, but are of a harassing or abusive nature, contact McAfee Customer Service and report the call to one of our team members.
The McAfee subscription renewal scam uses deceptive emails, texts, and phone calls pretending to be from McAfee in order to swindle money and information from recipients.
Scam websites. Some websites offer customer service for McAfee products. But they charge a lot of money for bad or no service at all. These are scam websites. If you think a website is a scam, don't enter your details like your email, phone number, or credit card information.
No, McAfee is the victim in this scam. Scammers use the trusted McAfee brand name without authorization to trick users more easily. McAfee actively works to detect and shut down these scams when discovered. How can I identify fake McAfee pop-ups and scans?
Here's what we found in a McAfee scam email that claimed to be a "confirmation receipt" or invoice for a subscription renewal.
The fake McAfee pop-up alerts are a tactic used by cybercriminals to deceive victims into purchasing an antivirus license. These fake alerts typically appear as pop-up windows or push notifications, and they often claim that the user’s device is infected with a virus or malware.
Did you get a fake McAfee or Norton invoice? How the scam works (and what not to do) If you've received emails with invoice PDFs attached for products you didn't buy, here's what's going on and...
1. Identifying The Scam. Before you can report a scam, you must first identify it. Familiarizing yourself with the common types of scams can help increase your chances of recognizing one when you see it.
On July 27, 2022, we reviewed a scam email that claimed to come from "McAfee Support," presumably the tech troubleshooting arm of the company that's best known for providing antivirus software.