Phone number is used in a false McAfee renewal phishing email.

Caller: Phishing Email

Spent 40 minutes on the phone with these scammers to get my "refund" (Don't worry, I know its a scam, and I'm set up and prepared for that.) After a lot of faked confusion by my 80+ year old alter-ego, they finally "trained" me how to set up remote access to my computer, where they "successfully" scanned and identified a number of hackers who were currently on my system. (Trust me, remote addresses shown on your computer when they do this is completely legitimate in most cases) They advised that I shouldn't cancel the account, but to agree to renew it. My machine is a virtual machine, running windows 7 over virtualbox running on a linux machine. I have a VPN to scramble my location, and all the time in the world to string these guys on. With their remote software connected to my "machine", I left them to it, whilst I exampned the traffic flowing through my network. I gathered enough information from this to identify their IP address, or at least the faked one that they use. They aren't stupid, they dtoo use a VPN to scramble their location. But when I changed my fake machine IP address to reflect their own, they got spooked, and dropped the call time after time when I called back.

I do NOT suggest anyone tries this without the proper training, knowledge and experience, but I though posting it here would give others a bit of a chuckle. Feel free to call them, but hide your number from them, and never ever let them have access to any computer or device you own.

Happy reading

Scam. Sends fake invoice by email, adds this ph no. to query/get refund