An email requesting that customers verify their payment information on Netflix is fooling many into a phishing scam.
The general advice to avoid phishing scams or malware
scams initiated by emails is to avoid clicking on links inside emails and
instead going directly to the relevant website instead.
This way you know you are at the genuine website and not
a spoof website designed to look like the Netflix website.
You can also verify the URL web address at the top of
your Internet browser screen to ensure you are on the correct domain as well,
but be aware – spoof web addresses can look very similar to the real thing.
In the case of the Netflix email scam we received this week,
the domain that we were directed to was srv-netflix.com/direct_497.php – on first
glance this could appear to be the real site, but it isn’t. (the real site is Netflix.com
of course)
So watch out, these emails can look legitimate and
clicking on those links can lead to a whole host of problems.
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