Netflix users should be careful, and there is a new scam to access your account. The Internet Security Office, OSI, has detected the reception of fraudulent SMS (smishing) that try to impersonate the company.
The criminals appear to redirect the victim through a misleading link to a website that mimics that of the platform with the intention of obtaining your account access data. To achieve this, they send a message with which they try to alarm the victim by indicating that there are problems with the payment of their subscription.
A scam of which all those people who have received the message, clicked on the link that appears and typed their credentials into the fake account may have been victims.
How to detect this type of messages?
The Internet Security Office has clarified that, specifically, these messages are characterized by containing links that do not guarantee a secure connection. In addition, the identified URLs use words that are very similar to the brand, such as “netfspain” or “neftxes”.
On the other hand, they clarify that it is possible that they contain misspellings, and that they generate in the user the urgency of perform the action in a maximum period of 24 hours.
What to do if you have been a victim of this fraud?
The OSI also details a series of recommendations if it is too late and you have entered your credentials after accessing the fraudulent link. The first thing they tell you to do is check that you still have access to your account. “If so, please change the password”they clarify.
However, if this is no longer possible, the Internet Security Office recommends that you contact the Netflix provider. Also, if you have entered your bank details, it is important to contact your bank as soon as possible to block it.
