MAJOR UPDATE: It has recently been brought to my attention that Tarun hired the third-party agency RemoveReports, LLC to try and bribe us into taking down this post.
After consulting with @NeeP, we ultimately decided to keep this post online given the overwhelming evidence against their scam operation, such as:
- Claiming to operate out of San Mateo, California and New York City despite most, if not all, of their employees operating out of call centers across India.
- Fraudulently representing themselves as McAfee or partners of McAfee to charge victims for a Qikfox “cybersecurity plan” that is really a monthly subscription for further calls to “reactivate their protection” through gift card payments.
- Falsely claiming that McAfee was already installed on their victims’ computer or that their victims’ information was compromised on the dark web.
- Reusing previously-reported toll-free numbers like the Twilo line (833) 397-2817, which was used to impersonate Apple and Microsoft back in 2022.
https://twitter.com/NeePscambaiting/status/1769140851744149883