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An alert to all Netflix subscribers: If you receive an email requesting you to update the payment data, do not click on any link in the message as it may be a new phishing scheme using the name of the streaming platform.
The blast was revealed by the Ohio Department of Police in the United States when one of the police officers (and who was not a subscriber to Netflix) received a message from the streaming site in their email. The message said that it was not possible to pay that month through the card that was entered in the registry and asked the user to click on a link in the message to update the billing data.
In addition to the fact that the recipient was not a subscriber of the platform, it was possible to identify the fraud because it was a message that asked the user to click on a specific link in the body of the email (instead of simply saying "access your account Netflix, "as is often the case in real-time e-mail updates) and also that, unlike in all messages sent by the company, the user's name was not quoted at any point in the message - which used only pronouns of neutral treatment - which were already very clear signs that this was a mass message sent to a group of email addresses.
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According to the MailGuard site, this email is just one of two email scam attempts currently circulating using the Netflix name. The other strike uses the same message template, but warns the user that his account has been suspended, asking him to update the billing data from a link in the body of the email. In both cases, when clicking on the link a malware is installed from the machine, and the user is taken to a page with the same design used by Netflix, where the user is asked to enter the credit card number.
On Twitter, Netflix warned users not to click on links within emails that look suspicious and asks that anyone who receives a false message from anyone going through the company send those emails to the company, so that it measures.
For now, both scams seem to affect only Netflix users in the United States, but it's always good to be aware that frauds of this type may start appearing here in Brazil at any time.
The blast was revealed by the Ohio Department of Police in the United States when one of the police officers (and who was not a subscriber to Netflix) received a message from the streaming site in their email. The message said that it was not possible to pay that month through the card that was entered in the registry and asked the user to click on a link in the message to update the billing data.
In addition to the fact that the recipient was not a subscriber of the platform, it was possible to identify the fraud because it was a message that asked the user to click on a specific link in the body of the email (instead of simply saying "access your account Netflix, "as is often the case in real-time e-mail updates) and also that, unlike in all messages sent by the company, the user's name was not quoted at any point in the message - which used only pronouns of neutral treatment - which were already very clear signs that this was a mass message sent to a group of email addresses.
ALSO READ 10 Tips on How to Identify a Phishing Email
According to the MailGuard site, this email is just one of two email scam attempts currently circulating using the Netflix name. The other strike uses the same message template, but warns the user that his account has been suspended, asking him to update the billing data from a link in the body of the email. In both cases, when clicking on the link a malware is installed from the machine, and the user is taken to a page with the same design used by Netflix, where the user is asked to enter the credit card number.
Yikes! That definitely didn't come from us. Any communications you get via email from Netflix will come from info@mailer.netflix.com. To report this as a phishing scam follow this link: bit.ly/1pQgMQP*AN
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On Twitter, Netflix warned users not to click on links within emails that look suspicious and asks that anyone who receives a false message from anyone going through the company send those emails to the company, so that it measures.
For now, both scams seem to affect only Netflix users in the United States, but it's always good to be aware that frauds of this type may start appearing here in Brazil at any time.
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