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IMPORTANT: You can forward suspicious emails to scam@mcafee.com. 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 .
Email scams. Scammers use emails to pose as reputable brands to get your personal information or money by offering deals or assistance to make payments. They’ll often include links to fake sites and attachments that are really malware.
Once you’ve identified the scam, you’ll need to gather all possible evidence to support your claim. This could include emails or text messages related to the scam, screenshots of the fraudulent website, bank statements, or any other form of correspondence that could be used as proof.
McAfee Smart AI™ flags suspicious emails so you don’t have to worry if it’s real or just a scam. We’ll also provide an analysis of the email so you can see the clues for yourself. To learn more, visit McAfee Protection Center.
Phishing is a scam that tricks you into voluntarily providing important personal information. Protect yourself from phishing by reviewing some examples of phishing emails and learning more about this common online scam.
If you see glaring grammatical errors in an email or text that asks for your personal info, you might be the target of a phishing scam. The logo doesn’t look right. Phishing scammers often steal the logos of the businesses they impersonate.
Any emails we’ve already flagged stay labeled McAfee: Scam Risk in your inbox. With the progress of AI, scammers can now make fake emails that look a lot like real ones. Email Scam Detection uses Gen AI tech to check your inbox and detect risky emails.
McAfee blocks risky sites even if you accidentally click on a suspicious link in texts, emails, and social media, protecting you from sites where you could fall victim to a phishing scam.
According to one source, the phishing email comes from a legitimate-looking PayPal service email address. Luckily, the typos, odd punctuation, extra spaces, and grammar errors in the body of the email give away that it is a phishing attempt.
IMPORTANT: You can forward suspicious emails to scam@mcafee.com. 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 .