[Jeff Chandler]

This is an obvious scam.

They wouldn’t call him.

[ransomnote]

Sounds like a scam. They want your credit card number. :/

[Vikon99]

No this is phishing. Hang up. They will steal the Credit Card Number.

[Red Badger]

SCAM!............................

[chris37]

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?

[Vikon99]

Also, McAfee already HAS his number from the billing info and they could refund without reaching out to him. Remember that.

[ConjunctionJunction]

I would be skeptical, too.

Try contacting McAfee via their Consumer Support:

https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/about.html

[ptsal]

Jim.... It is a scam.
That phone call is going around the net.

Perhaps, Gulag can look into it.... Maybe FakeBook.

[butlerweave]

How did they know he had McAfee ? Phishing

[Repeal The 17th]

“...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.

[butlerweave]

My mother would get those Windows OS phone calls but I moved her to Linux long ago ,LOl

[mountainlion]

I am due a refund for some failure on my Microsoft. John Microsoft told me so but If I don't send IRS money immediately they will send the “Local Cops” out to arrest me.

It would be funny for someone with good writting skills to write a book on these scams.

[coaster123]

Really?

[Hulka]

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.

[yesthatjallen]

My son received an unsolicited phone call from a McAfee rep saying their server crashed and they need to refund my credit card.

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.

[bluejean]

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.

[BipolarBob]

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.

[umgud]

I got the same call.

[babble-on]

McAfee itself is one of the worst virus on the internet, and this is another example of its perniciousness.

[Larry Lucido]

Could be a scam.

But if you don’t give them your card number, how will you ever know?

Go on, try it!