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Safety Report: Phishing scam, Stamford, CT, USA
8 months ago •reported by user-mkxx5523
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
I received a phishing email claiming to be “Malwarebytes” offering me a 3 year subscription that a) doesn’t exist and b) I never bought, and attempted to charge me over $400 including tax.The phishing email had the phone number: 888 889-2916, which is not Malwarebytes’s official support number.
The originating email does not have malwarebytes. com, the phone number is incorrect, and I never purchased malwarebytes premium. The actual malwarebytes offering is called “plus” and not “premium”, and malwarebytes does not offer a 3 year plan option, only monthly, annually, and 2 year. Even if malwarebytes did offer a 3 year plan, the total would come out to roughly $297 and not $399, since the annual option is priced at 99.99 on Malwarebytes’s website.
Per malwarebytes’s official website, renewal emails come from the following addresses, and none of them are present:
no-reply@ store-mail.malwarebytes. com
no-reply@ mail.malwarebytes. com
noreply@ e.malwarebytes. com
noreply@ t.malwarebytes. com
I already alerted both Malwarebytes and relevant regulators (FTC, FBI).
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And, incredibly, when I copied/pasted the phone number so I could search for it in Google, the text that pasted wasn't the phone number at all, but this: S(fmt8M8py8jrn)lqo jj8rv8YVR9S-MS2PW9W1zsm6 Never saw anything like that before . . . very creative scammers . . . Also, the email was addressed To "my name/email" and From "my name/email".