If you’ve reviewed your emails recently, you’ve probably noticed a lot of spam messages similar to COVID-19, your bank and your expenses require special attention. If you haven’t guessed it yet, it’s most common for spam and scams, but why do so many of those apparent traps pass through our filters so easily?
The answer is complicated, but it has to do with the fact that more people than ever are online in those days. Between coronavirus locks and the closure of mass gatherings and entertainment, the online population is much larger and more mature to be exploited by hackers. Tap or click here to see why there are so many phishing scams in those days.
To make matters worse, a new scam is circulating that poses a danger to your bank accounts. This phishing email looks like a genuine Netflix message describing a billing error with your account. But if you make the mistake of completing the way you connect it, you can empty your entire bank account. That’s how you can detect it.
Netflix urges subscribers to avoid opening a phishing email that claims to be directly from the company. If it appears in your inbox, interacting with the message can give hackers access to your bank account and potentially other non-public data.
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When you click on the link, it appears what appears to be the Netflix website, but offers payment effects and account details on scammers who collect your card, email and password data.
But this is not the only danger surrounding this scam. Many incarnations of email come with what appears to be an attached text file. Downloading this attachment may result in the installation of ransomware or other malware on your PC in addition to the phishing problem. It’s a double scam in a message!
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But despite how serious this scam is, it is quite simple to stumble and avoid, even if you accidentally ventured deep into the fraudulent site.
It’s not just Netflix, either. Tap or click here to see the harmful Amazon phishing email circulating on the web.
As with almost all phishing emails pretending to be from an official source, the revealing signal you should look for is the email sender’s box.
In this copy received through Tech.co, you can see that the sender’s domain does not come from Netflix at all. Rather, it is a complex string of characters and numbers from a site called ngedownloads1.onmicrosoft. We recommend that you do not use this domain if you need to keep your PC and your knowledge safe.
But that’s not the only suspicious thing in the message. The email itself doesn’t even apply to you, a subscriber, through your name, as all general Netflix emails do. Instead, it is widespread, indicating that thousands of other people were probably sent a huge burst of email. The backup of “Your Friend at Netflix” (small, nothing less) is also not a favor.
Tech.co even scanned the link just to see what was going on if you visited the fraudulent site. To no one’s surprise, it’s full of design and spelling errors. More importantly, it’s nothing like Netflix!
Again, we do not propose to visit this for security reasons.
Beyond this apparent phishing scam, here are some general steps you can follow in case you find more realistic fake emails along the way:
If you need to get stuck in a phishing campaign, here are some undeniable steps you can take to stay safe:
No, thank you, I’m already a virtual expert.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that criminals around the world avoid their boring tactics in the short term. But with enough foresight and knowledge, you don’t even have to worry about fitting up your next victim. A good eye is all it takes to stay safe. Tap or click here to see an example of a realistic email scam.
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