ONE WAS SENT TO MY EMAIL ADDRESS TODAY, THAT I DELETED AND STOPPED THE SENDER
FROM SENDING ANY MORE. INFORMATION ON SCAM AS BELOW.

Norton Subscription Scam (9/1/2021)
September 1, 2021 by jacastellani
Fish, like Phishers, never sleep! Today we have a Norton Subscription Scam. The way this works is the phisher will email you a bill and list their scammer phone number. They want you to call their number. They will then try to gather additional information from you such as credit card information or personal information (name, DoB, SSN, etc). Always be suspicious when you receive a unsuspecting bill and always check the sender address. Lastly, if you feel the need to contact the company (e.g Norton), find the customer service number for Norton using the company’s website. You can normally find this information from a quick google Google Search since the information in the email may not be trust worthy. Email details are below:

From: ethan gre ethan5467gre@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 1:25 PM
Subject: DEBITED RECEVED AUTOMATICALLY #PCB 339 ABG
To: consumer792@gmail.com

dear valuable customer,

Your application for the automatic renewal plan for Norton 365 protection for PC has been auto upgraded successfully .

And the payment has been debited from your account automatically.

we would like to send you the details for your order as our policy is transparency.

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Voucher no : : PCB 339 ABG

Subscription date: – : 31th AUG 2021

product detail : : NORTAN 365 protection for PC

validity limit : 1 – year date of purchase

subscription charges : $298 :88 USD

Billing detail : : Debited (A/C) AUTO

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If you like to change the subscription you can Kindly get in touch with our Norton team :

Please call us on : (1) + (866) (508) (2541)

Regards ;

Very similar to the Plusnet scam I mentioned recently:-

I have received an e-mail purporting to be from Plusnet telling me they have applied a £185.21 charge to my account and inviting me to follow a link to a refund application form.
It is a scam and Plusnet say they are dealing with it.
I am mentioning it in case it is a new one which people aren't aware of.
(It is quite genuine looking.)

I used to work in the IT industry and in retirement I have set up and/or fixed numerous laptops for people. I only ever use the built in Windows Defender and have never had a problem.
A lot of the so called free anti virus like AVG often come with stuff that you don't need which can be very difficult to remove. If you ever get stuck with a virus or malware I would recommend doing a scan with Spybot and Malwarebytes but as ever, be careful where you get it from. Similarly watch out for browsers like Chromium which looks like Chrome but is also very difficult to remove. I have seen Chromium on a number of systems and I don't know where it comes from.
One other tool I use is CCcleaner (free) which gives your PC a good cleanout of unsused files and registry items