Phishing? McCorkell re unlicensced or pirated software

[moragg82249299]

Received a call from someone claiming to be from McCorkell in Sydney (though he gave 3 different company names during the call). He was calling on behalf of Adobe to let us know that we are using unlicensced / pirated software. I asked which software and he said he wasn't given that detail. He wanted an email address in order to send a file which contained the detail. I advised that we'd contact Adobe direct.

We're a small business and monitor all software on our machines - users don't have permission to install. It is highly unlikely there's unlicensed software. All software is registered with Adobe so they have a contact email address for our business.

Has anyone else heard from this company, or can anyone advise if this is potentially a legitimate call? 

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Moving to the Get Started forum from Community Help

[Just Shoot Me · Accepted solution]

Good for you saying you would contact Adobe directly.

I am 99.9999999% sure this is some type of scam.

[Jeffrey_A_Wright · Accepted solution]

Test Screen Name is correct, Moragg82249299, we do not call up customers and tell them that they are using pirated software. Instead, you will receive a notification on screen, that the license is invalid or revoked.  For more information see https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/invalid-revoked-serial-numbers.html.