Police warn of scammers posing as Netflix to gain personal information
Police are warning of a new scam involving Netflix. Multiple users throughout the country have reported receiving suspicious emails from someone posing as Netflix.
{“author_name”:”City of Solon, Ohio Police Department Government”,”author_url”:”https://www.facebook.com/SolonOhiopolicedepartment/”,”provider_url”:”https://www.facebook.com”,”provider_name”:”Facebook”,”success”:true,”height”:null,”html”:”&#lt;div id=”fb-root”&#gt;&#lt;/div&#gt;n&#lt;script&#gt;(function(d, s, id) {n var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];n if (d.getElementById(id)) return;n js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;n js.src = ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2’;n fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);n}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));&#lt;/script&#gt;&#lt;div class=”fb-post” data-href=”https://www.facebook.com/SolonOhiopolicedepartment/photos/a.174169985967202/2303984219652424/?type=3″ data-width=”552″&#gt;&#lt;blockquote cite=”https://www.facebook.com/SolonOhiopolicedepartment/photos/a.174169985967202/2303984219652424/?type=3″ class=”fb-xfbml-parse-ignore”&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;We talk about scams from time to time. Here's an example of an email phishing attempt that I received. (Biggest clue…&#lt;/p&#gt;Posted by &#lt;a href=”https://www.facebook.com/SolonOhiopolicedepartment/”&#gt;City of Solon, Ohio Police Department Government&#lt;/a&#gt; on &#lt;a href=”https://www.facebook.com/SolonOhiopolicedepartment/photos/a.174169985967202/2303984219652424/?type=3″&#gt;Thursday, December 6, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;&#lt;/div&#gt;”,”type”:”rich”,”version”:”1.0″,”url”:”https://www.facebook.com/SolonOhiopolicedepartment/photos/a.174169985967202/2303984219652424/?type=3″,”width”:552}
The email asks users to update their personal or even billing information.
Netflix reminds users to not disclose any information or respond to any emails other than those received from info@mailer.netflix.com — the official Netflix email.
{“url”:”https://twitter.com/Netflixhelps/status/1072992752860844032″,”author_name”:”Netflix CS”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/Netflixhelps”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;Yikes! That definitely didn't come from us. Any communications you get via email from Netflix will come from info@mailer.netflix.com. To report this as a phishing scam follow this link: &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/m8mIIjD6ra”&#gt;https://t.co/m8mIIjD6ra&#lt;/a&#gt; *AN&#lt;/p&#gt;— Netflix CS (@Netflixhelps) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/Netflixhelps/status/1072992752860844032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;December 12, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}
Users can report suspicious emails or help protect their accounts at help.netflix.com.
