Norton Life-Lock Scam from [email protected]

[s&wchad]

I received this email last night:

I was pretty sure it was a scam, but I cancelled my Norton internet security last year and the sender seemed to be an Intuit address.

Senders email = [email protected]

After spending about 10 minutes on the phone with the real Norton (I looked up their number on Google), I was told I'm not enrolled in auto-pay, they haven't invoiced me, they don't offer a 3-year plan and the senders email is a known scammer.

Be careful out there...

 

[chief38]

These scammers keep getting better and better and we need to get sharper and sharper!!

Unless I specifically order or buy something, the first thing I think is scam. Once in a blue moon, it turns out to be authentic, however that is in the vast minority. Stay sharp!!

 

[pharman]

Thank you...

Thank you for posting this information...I appreciate you doing this...Roger

 

[jeffrefrig]

I've been getting the same one for about a year now. It's a game now...I delete them as fast as I check my in box, and they keep sending them about monthly. It must be a lucrative business. I never gave it a second thought, but I'm glad someone took the time to actually bring this out to warn the rest of us. Thank you s&wchad for the warning. Those of us over 60-65 need all the help we can get. Our minds aren't as quick as they used to be. I don't believe there's an opt out capability for future e-mails; another sign of scam.
The ones I have been getting with regularity are the male enhancement treatments/drugs. But, I think my wife is involved somehow; just a hunch!

 

[mmande]

I used to click "unsubscribe" at the bottom of unwanted e-mails to make them go away, but anymore how do we know that doing that won't infect your computer with a virus just the same as opening up the message? It's becoming a really crazy world out there!
Mike

 

[GaryS]

Always look at the email headers. That will tell you who actually sent the email. Also don't use HTML to read your email. That too will show you where the email came from.

If you DO use HTML don't click on any links unless you are 100% sure it's legit. It is very easy to spoof a legitimate website and create a fake one.

Anything from "Geek Squad" is fake. Anything from a bank or credit card company asking you to verify you account information is fake. Anything from "Amazon" telling you your account is suspended until you verify your payment method is fake.

These scam artists like to target older people, many of whom are not internet savvy. Don't be a chump.

 

[handejector]

Use your Nigerian lottery winnings to pay it!

 

[jeffrefrig]

Use your Nigerian lottery winnings to pay it!

Also, get one of those mail-order supermodels from Ukraine to help spend that money. Maybe the real mail order bride could use a new babushka.

 

[DWalt]

I get similar scam email attempts frequently, they all follow much the same scheme. Usually from Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, etc. notifying me that I have bought some goods or services and my credit card is being billed. Amounts are usually in the hundreds of dollars to get your attention. Purpose is they want you to reply to them so that they can fish for more personal information. All these scammers need is for one percent of the recipients to respond to get their payday.

 

[H Richard]

I routinely get one for Geek Squad. We don't have one available within 100 miles, and I have never used them. I just delete them.

 

[Dave_n]

If you simply "wave" your cursor over the "Click Here" (as an example) you can see the full URL of the "Clickable link". Those you recognize as genuine, then "click away", otherwise delete the message. Dave_n

 

[Rustyt1953]

If they cast their lure in the pond enough times they will eventually get a bite.

 

[swsig]

I received this email last night:

The blatant misuse of proper English is always a dead giveaway of a scam. Note the accent marks over each "o" in "Norton" in the body of the "invoice". That alone tells you that the email is not legitimate.

Never hit "Unsubscribe" in a suspect email. All that does is tell the spammerscammer that your email address is legitimate, and they will sell it to other spammerscammers. Result: Even more spam.

Don't just delete spam. Most email software will allow you to consign it to a dedicated spam or junk file, and all future email from the spammer's address will go into the spam file instead of your inbox. It's then easy to delete all of it at once.