Update payment method: Netflix phishing scam steals login credentials

Netflix is home to more than 100 million users from around the world and since it is a paid service the chances of online threats against the service are higher than habitual. Recently,HackReaddetected a phishing scam that targets personal and financial information of Netflix users in the name of updating their payment method acting.

Although thither is nothing new about Netflix scams, when a phishing email comes right in your inbox rather than ending leading in the detritus brochure, it does pose a threat to unsuspecting users. Same happened in that co when scammers sent an email pretense to map Netflix and urging users to update their defrayal method as they are having "problem authorizing charge plate" of the user.

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The email asks users to click on a yoke (netflix.com/YourAccountPayment) that seems authentic but actually, it is a spoofed link and can this link hides the phishing link developed to steal your Netflix login certificate and credit scorecard data.

At first look, the e-mail looks authentic, only aft going through its content, it becomes evident that sender of necessity some grammar classes while the Outlook based email address used in the swindle is adequate to detect it as a fake Netflix electronic mail.

But if you are unaware of phishing scams and somehow fall for this scam and get across on the spoofed join, it will take you to a fake Netflix login page with Marvel's Daredevil TV serial publication on the background. The sign in form is designed non lonesome to steal away Netflix information, but it as wel allows users to log-in with their Facebook credentials. In that mode, scammers can use up Netflix and Facebook email and word as a kitty.

Once a user signs in, they are taken to another paginate claiming to deal with payment validation and asks them to enter their charge card inside information including cardholder name, card number, expiry date, security code and postal address.

After clicking on "Update Payment Method," user is redirected to the official Netflix help page to trick users into believing that whole sue was authentic.

Full news is thatHackRead.com reportable the scam to the hosting firm where the scam was hosted who has removed the phishing domain. However, if you have an account with Netflix you might be the succeeding user to be targeted with a replaceable nobble, thus, personify vigilant and in guinea pig you receive a suspicious netmail, link Netflix through their website chat service.

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