McAfee Institute is not a global leader in training, but a scam company. Chesterfield MO

I discovered through online research looking into this company  that ALL 5 STAR reviews that are written are actaully generated by the CEO - Josh McAfee - they are 1 liners and are fake. He has the ability to produce fake purchase reciepts to post non-existent poeple that ultimately generate 5 star reviews to sell his courses. 

McAfee Institute is a self-promoting company owned and operated by an individual that is promoting criminal investigative, intelligence, and cyber type certifications that have no recognition in the professional world. This company is a money grabbing entity that claims several elements, all of which are not true. McAfee Institute is NOT a global leader in training. They do not have 2.5 million students. Several individuals from various companies who thought they were signing up to “high end” training only to find dated and irrelevant online videos - had 2 choices. Complain to the owner and lose their certification, which they over paid for (or) keep quiet and hope that industry leading companies would not question the certifications when presented to show competence in certain areas that employers were seeking. Those who did write reviews or seek refunds were harshly treated by the owner, had their certifications that they paid for and earned through simple multiple choice tests “REVOKED” as if anyone would notice.

No professional company or law enforcement agency is requiring these certifications. The list of police departments shown on the MI website basically had every LE agency on in the US listed. However, when contacting their training departments, no one has ever heard of them OR a certain person did sign up and take these low quality, meaningless courses and think that it shows competency towards whatever the certification claims it to be. It does not. No real company or agency is requiring these certifications. The "board certification" that Josh McAfee states exists, is actually him. It's a revolving scam that he promotes to sell these courses to unsuspecting poeple. The certs have cool and professional names, but are actually meaningless. 

There are agencies like the US Army, Navy, Air Force that training their personnel in intelligence and cyber operations that outside industrial companies will find useful. There are also private companies that ARE globally recognized for their cyber certifications such as CompTIA, ISC2, CISCO, eLearnSecurity, EC Council, Offensive Security, GIAC/SANS, and many more. There are professional protection companies such as Executive Protection Institute, ESI, Academi, and others - but not McAfee Institute. This is not a "real" training company. The outdated material purchased by Josh McAfee to generate these online videos and have what is a non-proctored exam that is suppose to be closed book, but there is no verification that the student who actuall have signed up and spent some serious money are actually verified to not using books or materials when taking the exam. The exams are reported to be very easy to ensure students pass. Therefore, the quality of training is poor compared to other actual professional certifications. 

McAfee Institute is a “online” only training. There are not “numbered” seats despite what the owner claims as “in house” instructors waiting diligently to answer questions a student may have on a particular course - as if their website is never silent or the phone never stops ringing. The owner is a hostile former Amazon security guard that once was a small town police officer. For some reason he left law enforcement (I wonder why???) and became a security guard for Amazon. At some point he got the brilliant idea to start a “super bad” training company with “really-cool” certification names so that those that were scammed could walk around and act like they really know what’s going on with out EVER joining the military or serving in a LE capacity. No sir, you too can train like the best in the US military or some other large police department - all from the comfort of your home by watching outdated useless videos and taking some quirky multiple choice exam with a LARGE price for the course - to make you feel even better about spending your hard earned cash!

I am reporting this so actual porfessionals STAY AWAY FROM McAfee Institute! …. it’s a bottom of the pit scam company who has been dimed out all over the place on the Internet for  its scam and it’s finally catching up to the owner. He has generated at least 2 fake accounts on REDDIT and is hostile to anyone posting the truth about their experiences with this company. 

Look up the owner on LinkedIn … he has no real talent and his little off the shelf company purchased some stupid videos from someone and is marketing them as a global sensation. They are not! I've seen too many people with a laundry list of these certs that have no actual experience or quality training sitting in employed spots thinking ther actually know what they are doing. They do not and its setting those individuals up for failure and the companies that are relying on them to know actual threats in the world they operate in. This is serious and needs to stop. 

Check out the well done YouTube video. The company is made up of this one guy, Josh McAfee. He has no background to design or "board" certify anyone or anything. Look up job postings on Indeed or ZipRecruier for these certifications - they don't exist. If this was a "global leader" one would think that it would be popping up all over the place. They are not. Advertizing is fake and is the CEO.  Do you research into valid training, online or in person, before you commit your funds to training of any sort.