Posted on 12/09/2019 1:40:46 PM PST by M.K. Borders
Does anyone have knowledge of a server breakdown at McAfee?
My son received an unsolicited phone call from a McAfee rep saying their server crashed and they need to refund my credit card.
Smells. Anyone else hearing this?
This is an obvious scam.
They wouldn’t call him.
Sounds like a scam. They want your credit card number. :/
No this is phishing. Hang up. They will steal the Credit Card Number.
SCAM!............................
Scam.
What are they going to do, call every account they have about a server crash?
Is their nationwide computer monitoring nerve center at the McAffee Fort in the center of that volcano?
Also, McAfee already HAS his number from the billing info and they could refund without reaching out to him. Remember that.
If McAfee DID crash, I would pay to watch....................
I would be skeptical, too.
Try contacting McAfee via their Consumer Support:
https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/about.html
Jim.... It is a scam.
That phone call is going around the net.
Perhaps, Gulag can look into it.... Maybe FakeBook.
How did they know he had McAfee ? Phishing
“...a phone call from a McAfee rep...”
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Nowadays, when you get a phone call,
you have no idea who may be on the other end of the line.
My mother would get those Windows OS phone calls but I moved her to Linux long ago ,LOl
It would be funny for someone with good writting skills to write a book on these scams.
Really?
Bold-faces scam.
NEVER give your credit card info to anyone.
Especially if they call you and CLAIM to be refunding money. They won’t, they will take the credit-card number and run with it, or sell it.
After all the articles and reports about internet scams, you don't recognize this as a scam?
No large internet company is going to individually call every customer.
They run their entire operation on one server that crashed and they can’t recover it so you get some money if you cough up a few details. SCAM.
I get calls from the IRS and my telephone provider and numerous credit card providers and student debt relief organizations as well as (and this is once a month regular) my vehicle warranty has expired and they want to “help” me. Everyone one of them wants to help me. Scams all of them.
I got the same call.
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