Netflix Scams Will Never End, So Don't Click And Use Unique Passwords For Every Account
By: Jim Stickley and Tina Davis
September 26, 2019
There are plenty of Netflix scams to go around. There’s the one that that asks to verify your account details. There’s the one that says you are locked out of your account until you click a link and verify your payment card information, and there is this one that law enforcement is now warning about. And when you read the message from the scammers, it’s as if they aren’t even trying to make it look authentic, knowing that some will fall for the ruse anyway.
The message says, “We face some difficulties with the current billing information of your own. We will try again, but please at the same time you update your payment details.” Now, if you are at least in the third grade, you can detect that this is very poorly written. The poor grammar and the missing punctuation give it away immediately. To make it even more clear for you, there is a button “conveniently” located on the page for you just click and update your payment card information. Then, the criminals have your login credentials and your payment information. Sadly, people are still falling for these scams.
Another dead giveaway for a scam is what email address is used with Netflix. Remember to put that together when you read emails that try to give you a sense of urgency and try to make you perform quick actions without thinking. Most of us have more than one email address and if the account they send email to isn’t the one attached to the corresponding account, it’s a dead giveaway that it’s phishing.
You may think that someone stealing your Netflix credentials isn’t a big deal. However, the scammers hope that whatever password you use for Netflix, you also use somewhere else; PayPal perhaps. So, each website account needs a completely different password so they cannot be reused across multiple websites.
If you do need to or want to confirm details in any account, go directly to the website and check there. Don’t click links in email messages, especially when you are not expecting to receive one. It just isn’t necessary and if you avoid that, you lower your risk of becoming a victim of phishing.