I need advice

[Traildogbob]

With all the ID theft and scamming I may be paranoid.
This AM I got an email from “McAfee” thanking me for my “Tokens” and my subscription would be renewed and within 24 hours $349 would be taken from my account. TOKEN??????
I Googled them, seems to be a tech Virus protection of some sort but the web page seems suspicious as well.
Called my credit union and asked if that comes in can it be blocked, but did not get a Yes on that.
I have no idea who they are and that is not something I can afford. How do you protect from this, I never click on this crap, and us there any Legal help to even report this crap to anymore.
There is no more law.

[WENSTJDON]

1. I am pretty sure it's a scam

It happened to me once with PayPal. I would delete it, and keep a watch on my checking account for any unfamiliar activity.

[jmbar2]

2. It's a scam

I get those all the time in my junk mailbox. Never click on them.

[Quakerfriend]

3. Scam- just delete. After having had my identity

stolen ( I believe via CHASE hack), I now keep all of my credit locked. When we bought a new car I unlocked it temporarily.

[Rebl2]

9. I do the

same. Have my credit locked at all times.
I get occasional scam emails saying my cable company isn’t able to charge my credit card for my cable, even though I have just been charged for it. I get other scam emails too, but that one is the most frequent.

[rurallib]

4. I get crap like that supposedly from McAfee all the time

I have never had anything to do with McAfee so I assume it is yet another phishing email. I mark it as such and move on.

I try never to open anything I suspect of being phishing

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Who was the email from? McAfee is a well-known, however, there are multiple scams.

Read here:

https://www.mcafee.com/support/s/article/000002097?language=en_US

[blogslug]

6. It's a scam

Don't click their links. Don't open their emails. Send everything to your spam folder.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Scam. Any links or return addresses in that email will not go to McAfee. Anyway, do you even have a McAfee account?

(an actual account, not just a purchase or product registration)

Examine the return address and links in the email (do NOT click). You will find they do not go to McAffee.

If you use Thunderbird for email you can open emails because it won't even download images for the email unless you explicitly okay it (requires setting a security checkbox). Images, even hidden 1 pixel wide images, are how the scammers know that the email was read. Other email programs probably have similar security settings you can find.

[Traildogbob]

11. No account

Never heard of them. The Token thing made me think some Bit Coin scam was going on.
Thank all of you so much!!! I never do click or respond, rarely click links posted here, but with Musk all the way our ass, this had me much more “concerned” (More so than Collins ever has been).
Ya’ll Rock!😉

[padfun]

8. I get those a lot. It's a scam

And i have never had anything taken out. They shouldn't have your card anyway if you don't have an account with them.

[Progressive dog]

10. I've had the McAfee e-mails several times now.

While I have not responded to the e=mails, I have monitored my credit card accounts for charges that I didn't make. I signed up fort e=mail notifications of any charge over $300 now.
Within the last year, I had a pending charge of over $400 from a company that I never bought anything from. That resulted in a new credit card for me and the charge was removed.

[Traildogbob]

13. Thank you.

Seems there should be one place this crap could be forwarded to for a consumer protect agency to go after the scammers.
But I guess we need GAZA Paradise for the wealthy, more than protecting us that pay taxes.
And these clowns are ending consumer protection Orgs and want to end FDIC.

[claudette]

15. I signed up

for any transaction over $1.00 with my bank and credit card accounts. Once an $800 charge was made and I called right away to dispute it. It was removed

[Traildogbob]

17. Gonna look in to

That today. Thanks.

[claudette]

20. It's truly worth it

I get a text whenever there’s a fraudulent transaction I can act immediately to call the bank and there’s a feature to “disable” my card too.

[Traildogbob]

21. Great info

Thank you. I will get that done ASAP! 🤜🤛

[claudette]

22. 👍😊

[DeepWinter]

12. It's a scam

I get something like that every other week for the last few years. Delete it and it can do nothing. It's only goal is to spark fear in you and you go down the rabbit hole looking into it.

[Traildogbob]

14. 🤜🤛

[usonian]

16. NEVER click on a link in an email.

If it looks like your bank or other legitimate business, go to their website (type its name into the browser URL/search bar)

Or call them.

Same for messages and phone calls you get.

[Traildogbob]

18. Words to live by

Thank you!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. Always ignore and delete anything

you didn't request yourself.

That's been a basic rule of the internet for decades now, so no one really needs to ask this question.