NETFLIX PHISHING. Users of the famous video platform are currently receiving an email indicating that their subscription has expired. This is a classic scam intended to retrieve their bank details.
Do you subscribe to Netflix? Watch your mailbox carefully if you don’t want to be scammed. In fact, users of the famous streaming video platform are currently receiving messages claiming that their subscription is suspended and urging them to pay urgently so as not to interrupt the service. This is obviously a phishing scam intended to extract their access codes and bank details.
A well-imitated fraudulent email
This is the site Phonandroid who sounded the alert this week, after being contacted by a reader. As we can see from the strange email he had just received, naive people can fall into the trap. The crooks who practice phishing are making more and more efforts to imitate official messages by using the visual codes of the brands and by limiting the errors of French. But without avoiding them completely: the formulation remains clumsy and the formatting coarse. Something to arouse suspicion for an informed eye.
A copy of the official Netflix website
Obviously, the message is alarmist. He invites the urgent click of a button to regularize the situation. Fortunately, the link is automatically blocked by recent browsers like Chrome, Firefox or Edge. Passing this security barrier, you end up on a copy of the Netflix site, with the platform’s official logo, a few successful series in the background, a banner allowing you to contact the service and, of course, an identification block for the login to account. A fairly convincing imitation, but not really up to date as regulars can tell. The trap is then to encourage the user to connect and provide their bank details (bank card number, validity date and security code) in order to trigger a payment. In the process, the crooks recover valid Netflix access codes which they can then resell on the internet.
Precautions not to be hacked
If the model of this scam is not new – it is the classic principle of phishing -, there is cause for concern as the email address used by the spoofers is the address attached to the Netflix account. of their target. The whistleblower specifies that he uses several messaging services and that it is indeed the one linked to Netflix that was targeted. The greatest caution is therefore required during this campaign if you have subscribed to Netflix. We also recommend that you log in to your Netflix account normally and check the connections, possibly changing your password. Also consult our special practical sheet to see if your email address and your identifiers are in the stolen databases circulating on the Internet.