Netflix customers have been warned of a new, “convincing” scam email doing the rounds.
The email, titled ‘Your suspension notification’, invites you to click on to a fake Netflix webpage and then asks for your personal information to reactivate your account.
Source: Mailguard
Security experts at Mailguard say that this scam is “relatively well designed, and is “quite convincing.”
“Aside from the error with the recipient name field, this email looks quite convincing,” a spokesperson says.
“If the recipient clicks the link in the email they are taken to a fake Netflix page, that asks them to log in and then enter their personal information, including credit card details.
“Of course, this website is completely bogus and is just a mechanism for the scammers to steal the victim’s identity and credit card information.
“The fake Netflix site this scam is using is built on a compromised WordPress blog. Scammers can break into WordPress sites by making use of vulnerabilities in blog plugins and once in, they can make the website look enough like a real Netflix login page to trick their victims – as shown in the screenshot above.”
Netflix says that they will never ask for your personal information to be sent over to them by email, including: Payment information, tax identification number, account number, etc.
If you believe you have received a phishing message, you can visit Netflix’s ‘How can I keep my Netflix account secure?’ page. You can also forward any suspicious emails on to phishing@netflix.com so as they can investigate the scam.
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