Watching You Watching Me: The Netflix Email Phishing Scam | Total Security
Netflix subscriber numbers have gone up and up and now stand at around 151 million. The company has taken the world of TV by storm and helped to change the way we watch shows and films. Because of this, the brand is a household name in the UK and elsewhere across the world. As we have said before, big brands are like honey to a cybercriminal bee. In the Vade Secure Q4 2018 report on the most popular brands used by fraudsters, Netflix came in at number two, kicking PayPal into the third position. So, no surprise then, that this week I have seen a flurry of phishing emails using the Netflix brand. What the Netflix Phishing Email Looks Like Although we received reports of a number of different Netflix phishing emails this week, they all used the same theme – account suspension. The emails all stated that the recipient’s Netflix account was suspended. To restart membership, you must click on a link that says, “Restart your Membership”. The fraudsters, in doing so, are hoping to catch one o...