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Former Member
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Phishing/spam through private message in McAfee Community

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Dear Support,

I have received message below. Please react accordingly as this is annoying and potentially harmful.. 

PS. Also it should be a space between my name 

Hello MartinPerez,

You have received a private message in the McAfee Support Community community.

Subject: Do you want a surprise? This is your lucky moment to win a beautiful brand new iPhone 12 Pro. Try it now!
From: Losttimes
Date: 12-15-2020 02:08 AM

Hey! We are giveaway a brand new iPhone 12 Pro! You can take part today! Go here ~ www.winner-zone.com ~~ and complete a simple sign up for a chance to win iPhone 12 Pro. Good luck!

To manage your private message options, click here.

Thanks for being a McAfee Support Community member.

Your McAfee Support Community Team

 

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Message 12 of 12

Re: Phishing/spam through private message in McAfee Community

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@Former Member,

We are aware of an incident in which you and other members were sent unsolicited messages and for that we apologize. We have remedied this incident but ask that you not click on the link in the message and in fact delete it if you have not already. You can find more information here in this message. You may reach me via private message if you have any questions or if you like, I can contact you directly via the email address on file. 

Sincerely,

Tiffany 

 

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MH-Innovation
Contributor
Message 2 of 12

Re: Phishing/spam through private message in McAfee Community

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And me.
Is a member using this forum to Phish us?
Former Member
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Message 3 of 12

Re: Phishing/spam through private message in McAfee Community

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Unfortunately that seems to be the case. McAfee community is being used as source of spam/phishing targets.

Flash53
Contributor
Message 4 of 12

Re: Phishing/spam through private message in McAfee Community

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J have had a similar message:

 

 

 Dragonflys 
49m ago
Hey! We are giveaway a brand new iPhone 12! You can participate today! Enter here - www.winner-zone.com ~ and complete a simple sign up for a chance to win iPhone 12 Pro. Well, good luck!
Different user name.  Come on McAfee, please get this sorted.
Former Member
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Message 5 of 12

Re: Phishing/spam through private message in McAfee Community

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I received the exact same spam email from "user" CrazyLoves 

A portion of the Internet headers from the message are below:

 

Received: from community.mcafee.com (unknown [10.237.77.108])

Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:00:53 +0000
From: McAfee Community <**personal information omitted**>

Message-ID: <**personal information omitted**>
Subject: You have received a private message in the McAfee Support
Community!

 

TGAdmin
Contributor II
Message 6 of 12

Re: Phishing/spam through private message in McAfee Community

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Received the same message from "Alienunicorns".
<insert sarcasm> It's too bad there's not a product out there that can filter and block this type of phishing message.

Former Member
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Message 7 of 12

Re: Phishing/spam through private message in McAfee Community

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Same here. Haven't found the private inbox yet, but still wanted to report it.  Hello Neko-,

You have received a private message in the McAfee Support Community community.

Subject: Do you like a reward? Here is your lucky moment to win a luxury brand new Apple iPhone 12. Hurry up!
From: BrightLights 
Date: 12-15-2020 03:16 AM

Howdy! We are giving away a brand new Apple iPhone 12! You can participate today! Go here - www.winner-zone.com ~ and complete easy sign up for a chance to win iPhone 12 Pro. Well, good luck!

To manage your private message options, click here.

Thanks for being a McAfee Support Community member.

Your McAfee Support Community Team

RamblingRozeta
Contributor
Message 8 of 12

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Former Member
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Message 9 of 12

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I've received the same letter.

Just for info, bellow some results of email headers analysis:

Summary
Subject: You have received a private message in the McAfee Support Community!
Message Id: <**personal information omitted**>
Creation time: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:37:14 +0000 (UTC)
From: McAfee Community <**personal information omitted**>
To: xxxxxx

Received
Hop: 1
From: community.mcafee.com (unknown [10.237.7.142])
By: outbound.us.khoros-mail.com (Postfix)
With: ESMTP
Id: E06E4C0005
For: <xxxxx>
Date: 12/15/2020 12:37:13 PM

Hop: 2
From: outbound.us.khoros-mail.com (unknown)
By: ismtpd0004p1sjc2.sendgrid.net (SG)
With: ESMTP
Id: 7sAeSzG2SOePgrPBS54n1w
For: <xxxxx>
Date: 12/15/2020 12:37:14 PM
Delay: 1 second
Percent: 22.42

Hop: 3
By: filter1673p1las1.sendgrid.net
With: SMTP
Id: filter1673p1las1-20141-5FD891DA-5
Date: Invalid date

Hop: 4
From: o4.ptr116.us.khoros-mail.com (149.72.223.204)
By: VE1EUR03FT003.mail.protection.outlook.com (10.152.18.108)
With: Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384)
Id: 15.20.3654.12
Via: Frontend Transport
Date: 12/15/2020 12:37:15 PM
Delay: 0 seconds
Percent: 17.58

ForefrontAntiSpamReport
Country/Region: US
Language: en
Spam Confidence Level: 1
Spam Filtering Verdict: NSPM
IP Filter Verdict: NLI
HELO/EHLO String: o4.ptr116.us.khoros-mail.com
PTR Record: o4.ptr116.us.khoros-mail.com
Connecting IP Address: 149.72.223.204
Protection Policy Category: NONE
Spam rules: (6029001)(4636009)(32952001)(58800400005)(76236003)(966005)(6916009)(22186003)(83380400001)(55016002)(5660300002)(2616005)(8676002)(1096003)(42882007)(356005)(83170400001)(166002)(336012)(7596003)(6266002)(26005)(33964004)(7696005)(7636003)(15650500001)(338175002)(46800400005)
Source header: CIP:149.72.223.204;CTRY:US;LANG:en;SCL:1;SRV:;IPV:NLI;SFV:NSPM;H:o4.ptr116.us.khoros-mail.com;PTR:o4.ptr116.us.khoros-mail.com;CAT:NONE;SFS:(6029001)(4636009)(32952001)(58800400005)(76236003)(966005)(6916009)(22186003)(83380400001)(55016002)(5660300002)(2616005)(8676002)(1096003)(42882007)(356005)(83170400001)(166002)(336012)(7596003)(6266002)(26005)(33964004)(7696005)(7636003)(15650500001)(338175002)(46800400005);DIR:INB;
Unknown fields: DIR:INB;

 

pbjwalker
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Message 10 of 12

Re: Phishing/spam through private message in McAfee Community

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I received the email, too.

Ironic that it comes from the McAfee community forum!

 

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Hello pbjwalker,

You have received a private message in the McAfee Support Community community.

Subject: Would you like to receive a surprise? This is your chance to win an amazing brand new iPhone 12 Pro. Participate in the draw!
From: Realityys
Date: 12-15-2020 12:03 AM

<P>Howdy! We're giveaway a brand new iPhone 12 Pro! You can participate today! Go here ~~ <A href="http://www.winner-zone.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.winner-zone.com</A> -- and complete a simple sign up for a chance to win iPhone 12 Pro. Well, good luck!</P>


To manage your private message options, click https://community.mcafee.com/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-preferences%3Aprivate-messenger.

Thanks for being a McAfee Support Community member.

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