Bogus Norton Anti-Virus purchase

[Patty Hann]

Hello All...
I just noticed this message in my email (gmail):

Thank You For Your Purchase





Order Confirmation <lucerocrystal2459@yahoo.com>



7:32 AM (11 hours ago)









These are the specifics of your Norton Payment
A Norton Total Protection licence was purchased through our website.

DETAILS

Transaction amount: 499.99 USD

Period: 36 Months

Transaction ID: N-m6S5XiD-7xdrtE9


We would like to express our gratitude for your recent payment to Norton LLC for 499.99 USD. You can use your license on any device for the next 3 years. It may take the transaction one business day to reflect on your banking statement.

If you have any enquiry or need assistance concerning your payment, reach out to us for any help by contacting our Customer Service: +1․866.795․3013


There was a place to click on a link to "review the order" (I did not click on it).
I called the phone number , just to see what would happen... no one answered, not even a recording.

I haven't used Norton for at least 25 years. I currently use MS Defender.
None of my CCs have been charged, my PP account looks the way I expected it to with my variety of ebay purchases.

Anyway, I wondered if anyone else has received this email From "Norton".
Oh, and the sender (shown in the header) is NOT Norton...it's a Yahoo address.

[Paul F Franklin]

I get similar fairly often. It seems Norton is a favorite target for scammers, probably because it is widely used so their random emails are likely to hit quite a few actual norton users.

It's gotten to the point that I rarely click on any link in any email. If I feel I need to follow up on something, I go directly to my account or the real website. You handled it well.

[Greg R Bradley]

This or any email designed to attempt to get you mad about a purchase you didn't make are always a SCAM. They want to make you angry so that you are not thinking straight and will call the number provided or logon to a website and give out information they want. DON'T do it, just delete.

[Warren Lake]

have seen Norton, Have seen Bell and sent it to them. Calls from Amazon and Rev Can and and. each time nice name and sounding like Peter Sellers in the Party. Had emails from two friends that I knew were not them. Did get a call from a guy from Revenue Canada or so he said but he had a french accent. Once I told him I knew he wasnt a scammer cause I didnt hear an indian accent on top of the french one and we had a good conversation. Them owing me money and not the other way around still wanting stuff updated.

I watched a few Scammer Payback you tubes last week. One guy if accurate super smart lets them try and scam him and while they are doing that he is in their computer taking stuff off their hard drives. he was able to claw back 24k that they had just scammed someone on and he took it away. Id like to believe those you tubes are accurate but more so like there is a way to shut scammers down. Out car club had a seminar at a hoist company and one owner said his mother was scammed by the grandchild in trouble scam. Got money out twice before he told her to call the grandsons cell phone and of course he didnt know a thing about it. Sad to hear it happened. I know my mother got those calls but was clear enough to ask questions, and my 93 year old same said whats your name? Clic.

[Larry Edgerton]

I got one of those, was wondering what the upside for them is? Deleted it, then deleted from the deleted file.

[Jerome Stanek]

I have gotten them before and I thank them for renewing it and I don't go to myPP account They give up real easy then

[Brian Elfert]

I got one of those, was wondering what the upside for them is? Deleted it, then deleted from the deleted file.

If you contact the emailer to say you didn't sign up for this they will ask you for your credit card number or bank account number to refund the charge. Now they have your credit card or bank account number so they can use it for fraudulent charges.

[Jim Becker]

These are well known phishing payment scams. DO not respond. DO not click on any link "in" the message. If you are concerned about a "payment" go to the normal website for the entity that supported the supposed payment and check there. Note that occasionally there may actually be a payment request in PayPal (if that was the listed method) if the email address the scammer uses happens to match. Kill it and report it.

[Rick Potter]

I keep getting them for paypal, which I never belonged to, but use as a guest occasionally. I also get them with a demand to pay invoice for unstated work/goods, with no identification as to company.

[Bruce Page]

I got one this morning. Generally all you have to do is look at the senders email address to know it's bogus. Gmail does a good job of recognizing junk. My Outlook account seldom spots them. As everyone should know, never click on any of the links.

[Jim Becker]

Yea, if my spam protection at the server doesn't catch something...which is rare...my MacOS Mail app gets 99% of the rest straight into the "Junk" folder.

[Patty Hann]

My "Spam Detector" (I use Gmail) is hit or miss.
This Norton thing showed up in my regular email.
A few times some legit emails (from places I buy from) have been "auto-moved" to the Spam folder.
Most of the time it works as it should.

[Larry Edgerton]

Kind of ironic when you think about it, Anti spam ware spam.

[Ole Anderson]

I got one of those, was wondering what the upside for them is? Deleted it, then deleted from the deleted file.Hold the shift key and click delete, one step to permanently delete it. And if you do use a virus program, good luck deleting it. And using the shift key will allow you to select a highlighted group for deletion. Well, at least for Outlook.

[Bill Dufour]

Got a text message yesterday, supposed to be from USPS, that my package had been delayed because it had an invalid address. They had a convient link to give my information to them. It did not have my name, the sender, any address. Why would the post office have my phone number anyway? I never told them and they have never asked. If this was real they would have dropped a postcard in my mailbox not used a competitor.
Bill D.

[Bill George]

You have to assume just about all of those invoice and Nortons and the like are Scams! Never ever respond to any of those.

[Jerome Stanek]

You have to assume just about all of those invoice and Nortons and the like are Scams! Never ever respond to any of those.
The real Norton is a scam as it loads almost as much cr** as Microsoft Windows

[Patty Hann]

The real Norton is a scam as it loads almost as much cr** as Microsoft Windows

^^^^THIS^^^^
It's a resource hog.

[Bruce Page]

The real Norton is a scam as it loads almost as much cr** as Microsoft Windows

I absolutely agree with you. I ditched Norton 20+ years ago and remember an unpleasant fight to remove it from my PC.

[Barry McFadden]

^^^^THIS^^^^
It's a resource hog.

I don't get the resource hog references. I've used Norton for years and never had an issue with slowing down my pc by it using up resources. My desktop PC is just an off the shelf model from Best Buy and the only thing I've done to it is swap the HD for a 1TB SSD. It goes from turning it on to ready to go in 13 seconds. Pretty much same results with my laptop. Neither one has any slowness issues when using.

[John Lifer]

Been a decade since I've tried Norton. It was a resource HOG then and I'll not try it again.

[Barry McFadden]

Been a decade since I've tried Norton. It was a resource HOG then and I'll not try it again.

Maybe you need a better computer??

[Bill Howatt]

No doubt in my mind that Norton (Symantec) software from years back was crap, it bogged down machines and it required a lot of frustrating work to get it off a machine. I think Symantec took/bought the good name of a person who developed a suite of very useful tools back in the primitive DOS era and seriously diminished it. Having said that, I think it is unfair to paint the current products with the same brush as the earlier Norton (Symantec) software and my understanding is that things have improved. I don't use it so I'll leave it at that.
If your machine runs well enough to do all you want to do with no ill effects from the Norton stuff then there is no problem. There is nothing to be gained by having "un-used resources" sitting around doing nothing. If it doesn't run well, then that's a different story.

[Patty Hann]

No doubt in my mind that Norton (Symantec) software from years back was crap, it bogged down machines and it required a lot of frustrating work to get it off a machine. I think Symantec took/bought the good name of a person who developed a suite of very useful tools back in the primitive DOS era and seriously diminished it. Having said that, I think it is unfair to paint the current products with the same brush as the earlier Norton (Symantec) software and my understanding is that things have improved. I don't use it so I'll leave it at that.
If your machine runs well enough to do all you want to do with no ill effects from the Norton stuff then there is no problem. There is nothing to be gained by having "un-used resources" sitting around doing nothing. If it doesn't run well, then that's a different story.

"Un-used resources" are not in a permanently unused state.
They are like money in the bank. I may not need it at the moment, but when I do, I want it to be there, available, not locked up (bogged down).
I want resources available.

[Ole Anderson]

I have both Free AVG and subscription Malwarebytes on my laptop. As long as you don't fall for the AVG upgrade popups all seems good there. Malwarebytes was added at the suggestion of the paid geek that removed a virus which loaded when I responded to a phishing scheme from an email which seemed to be legit from PayPal. They seem to work well together.

[Patty Hann]

I have both Free AVG and subscription Malwarebytes on my laptop. As long as you don't fall for the AVG upgrade popups all seems good there. Malwarebytes was added at the suggestion of the paid geek that removed a virus which loaded when I responded to a phishing scheme from an email which seemed to be legit from PayPal. They seem to work well together.
Malwarebytes worked well for me...until it didn't.
One day it started causing all kinds of problems, so I got rid of it.