Take care! The online video platform Netflix warns its users of a new fraud that could cost them dearly. We explain to you what it is all about.
After the Crit’Air sticker scam, another associated with Action stores or even license plates, now the online video platform netflix warns. Indeed, the streaming giant, which has no less than 10 million subscribers in France alone, warns of a new fraudulent attempt that could cost you dearly. While you continue to follow “Les braqueurs”, “Lidia”, “Mercredi” or even “Ginny & Goergia”, malicious people are trying to extract personal information to take advantage of them, such as a telephone number, your email address or even bank details. “If you have received an email/SMS (requesting this information), it is surely not from us” says Netlfix on Twitter.
What should you be especially wary of? Survey-type emails titled “Netflix appreciates your feedback”. It is all the more difficult to discern the true from the false as the platform regularly consults its users to estimate their satisfaction rate. However, fraud can be detected in the sense that emails are sent en masse, up to ten per hour. Which inevitably raises questions.
As you will have understood, it is better not to click on the links sent through the emails and SMS of fraudsters. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be too late. Keep your personal information secret, change your password and contact your bank. Trust only the following addresses: [email protected] or [email protected].
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Soon an “anti-fraud” filter?
To fight against these increasing scams, the Government confirmed on Monday February 20 that it wanted to set up a digital shield, a “scam filter” who will inform “preventively the Internet user when he is about to go to a site identified as a scam site”. This is what Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate for the Digital Transition, explained this week on francinfo.frtalking about some kind of tool that could be operational by September, at least in its experimental form. “We are witnessing a very strong increase in digital insecurity. We must put an end to this anxiety that grips our fellow citizens” he added, without giving many flaws as to the method, however.