Here’s some more Netflix phishing for you to look out for. This bogus email isn’t too convincing at first:
But for anyone who clicks that button (DON’T!), the next page that loads is almost spot-on as an impostor:
The giveaway on that fake site would be the strange URL, but I can understand how people would miss that. The bold look of the Netflix design really draws the eye to the main part of the window.
To be clear: anyone who enters an email and password on this screen is actually giving their Netflix credentials to a cybercrook! But it gets worse on the next page:
And any victim who cooperates with that will then arrive at:
Finishing with:
And after a few seconds, this scam site will auto-forward visitors to the real Netflix site.
This phishing is especially nasty. Many phishing emails just increase your spam, or steal a password from you, but this one? Someone who falls for this scam is handing over their
- Name, Address, Phone number
- Email address
- Netflix password
- Credit card info
- Date of Birth
That’s enough to enable significant identity theft! I hope that, if you’re reading this, you haven’t fallen into this trap. But if you have, I am sorry to say that you should prepare for a lot of work to repair and safeguard from this scheme. You’ll want to
- Change passwords for your Netflix, email, purchasing and financial accounts
- Look into freezing your credit with the big credit reporting agencies
- Talk with your banks about placing extra alerts or watches on your financials
- Watch your credit reports on a regular basis
- Think about paying for an identity-monitoring service
- Brace yourself for an increase in scammy calls/texts/emails, even postal mail!