There is a current McAfee spam (phishing) email being sent out.

[MineralMan]

I've been getting three or four of them every day this week. I don't have any McAfee products installed on my PC.

If you receive anything of the sort, do not open the email and mark it as spam in your email client.

As always, do not click on any links in such email, but it's best not even to open them.

Beware of Russians bearing gifts, folks.

[notinkansas]

1. Same here.

I was getting several every day. It took a while, but after I started automatically marking them as spam, the frequency diminished gradually. Have to say they were persistent.

[JohnSJ]

2. I have been receiving them for some time now, and even though I mark them as spam, they still

keep coming

[MineralMan]

5. They're changing the sender's address constantly, which confuses

your email client software.

[notinkansas]

3. There are also the ones that say you have won a $100 gift card.

I've seen them 'from' Lowes, Costco, Amazon. More spam.

[MineralMan]

8. Yes, those are a perennial favorite.

Many of them use what looks like fancy fonts in the title. In reality, those are images that can't be read by spam-detecting algorithms. They're easy to spot, though, and are never legit.

[orwell]

4. Plus uh...

McAfee generally sucks.

I got the same email MM. It was an obvious phishing scam.

I have removed McAfee from client's computers twice in the last couple of months. There was an immediate dramatic improvement in load times and general performance, so much so that both called and thanked me the next day for the dramatic difference. Both were considering buying new computers because they couldn't understand why the performance had suddenly nosedived.

In both cases it was due to a McAfee installation or a bad McAfee update.

Then there was the time that McAfee caused all AMD based computers to stop booting entirely...

[MineralMan]

6. Yes. I haven't allowed any McAfee products on my PCs

for several years.

[JohnSJ]

7. That is a sure sign it is spam

[dumbcat]

9. I've been getting them for months

several times a day. Blocking doesn't help as they use different addresses.

I'm pretty sure it's not McAfee sending them. They use a more direct approach.

[yellowdogintexas]

10. if your email is yahoo, you can hover over the sender and view the email address

I love this feature on Yahoo and would like to see it on Gmail.

I also love the magnifying glass just to the right of the sender's name. Click it and every email you have from that sender will pop up and you can delete them all at once. This is another feature I would like to see in Gmail.

Those strange fonts are really a dead giveaway though.

I have been getting these things for months, at least two per day. I used to use McAfee and I though that was why I was getting them. From some of y'alls comments I see that is not the only reason