Netflix scammers stealing credit card info — protect yourself now

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Netflix is such an on-need role of our lives that it'southward understandable that nosotros'd always want our accounts working and prepare when the need to stream strikes. That'south why a new series of convincing-looking attacks on Netflix users seems quite likely to steal your credit-bill of fare information.

This concerning news comes to us from the security firm Armorblox, which recently discovered a Netflix phishing assault aiming to pry your billing data away from you.

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The attack starts with an electronic mail challenge to be from Netflix Support that claims to take "encountered some problems during [its] monthly verification process of your billing address and payment details" and that it could lead to the user's subscription beingness "suspended in 24 hours if yous fail to update your information promptly."

With that time frame thrown down, recipients may will experience a bit of a panic and want to get this mensurate resolved. That makes it more probable that they'll click on text that says "Click Here To Update your information." Unfortunately, though, this just sends them to a faux Netflix website where data is to exist scrounged.

How to avoid this Netflix scam

First of all, the all-time communication we have is to be suspicious and wary of links you're emailed randomly. Just like cold calls pretending to be Windows Technical Support, they're often not trustworthy.

Whenever I get any text bulletin or electronic mail alert that claims to be from client service from my depository financial institution, a streaming service or annihilation else, that is asking me to click a link and log in, I skip correct past that email or text.

Instead, I open the bodily page of the service in question, and become to my account. If there's something wrong that needs to exist fixed, you'll see prompts to fix that there.

And when you get those texts, look closely at the URLs y'all've been given to click, preferably past hovering over the link on desktop. A long printing to preview in iOS or iPadOS starts to load the page on your device, and that could pb to other headaches.

In this example, the fraudulent Netflix CAPTCHA page'southward accost is "https[:]//wyominghealthfairs[.]com/cpresources/d3835d8b/one/" — which is obviously not affiliated with the king of streaming services. (The Wyoming Health Fairs website was probably not aware that it had been hacked.)

Afterwards, later you fill out the CAPTCHA, you're taken to a page that looks like it could be the official Netflix site, until you see its axxisgeo[.]com address. Again, yous know that'south not Netflix. Don't trust it.

How this Netflix scam works

Armorblox details that both of the fraudulent web pages were being hosted on legitimate web domains that have their security certificates all taken care of, so your spider web browser won't put up a worrying alert about the legitimacy of those pages.

The CAPTCHA test to prove that you're human is some other effective bulwark to detection of these phishing pages, considering browsers and antivirus software alike ofttimes rely upon calculator algorithms to rapidly procedure suspicious sites.

Oh, and right later you fill up out your Netflix billing data? The scammy sites redirect you to the actual Netflix dwelling page, so it all feels like everything is copacetic.

This kind of scam targets the low-information internet user, unaware of how they might be fleeced adjacent. Exist sure to share this teachable lesson with your friends and elderly relatives, to make sure they don't fall prey to the trap.

The AxxisGeo (a Norwegian seafloor-drilling business firm) and Wyoming Health Fairs sites have both been scrubbed of these phishing pages. Only the crooks behind could hands plant their stakes somewhere else, and then make sure to keep your baby-sit up.

Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the by 6-plus years. Prior to joining Tom's Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He's too covered the wild world of professional person wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other manufacture veterans.

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Netflix scammers stealing credit card info — protect yourself now