Phone Scams Targeting McAfee Customers

Computer security software customers, such as McAfee, are a favorite target of scammers.  They often send fraudulent and alarming email messages, enticing victims to call phony oversees call centers.

If you have received an email claiming to be from McAfee that includes a phone number, you can search the list provided here to see if it’s known to be associated with scam email messages.

The following phone numbers have been associated with such scams:

These messages come in all shapes and sizes, but here’s an example of one such scam.  Notice that the phone number provided has a different font face and size.  This is due to the number being an image rather than text.  Attackers due to this in an effort to evade text pattern matching.

Scammers will often abuse legitimate services to make their scams more believable.  This includes:

• Sending fake invoices through intuit QuickBooks, where the email messages originate from intuit.com and contain QuickBook links back to intuit.com
• Sending Yahoo! calendar invitations to “remind” victim’s that their subscription is due for renewal.
• Using LinkedIn’s url shortener (lnkd.in) to hide the true destination

If you suspect an email that you have received is a scam, you can forward the message to spam@mcafee.com