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Netflix spearheaded the streaming movement and changed at-home entertainment as we know it. For this reason, it remains one of the giants of the industry today. Scammers often impersonate well-known, trustworthy companies, making a household name like Netflix a prime target. With scam texts holding their spot atop the list of phone-scam threats, Netflix text scams were all but inevitable.
Phone scammers steal billions of dollars from Americans every year, leaving them with drained bank accounts and lingering psychological effects. However, there are ways to protect oneself and fight back. Keep reading to learn about Netflix text scams and how to avoid falling for fake messages.
Netflix text scams are a specific type of smishing attack (which is a type of phishing scam) whereby fraudsters try to get valuable personal information from their targets by disguising themselves as Netflix. They hunt for sensitive data like credit card numbers, email addresses, and login credentials they might use to hack into other accounts. Some scammers go directly for your money, while others sell your stolen data on the dark web.
One type of Netflix text scam claims your account has been put on hold, possibly due to declined payments or suspicious account activity. The text contains a link and instructs you to follow it to input your credentials, update your information, and regain access to the streaming service. Unfortunately, the link actually sends you to a fake website where scammers can steal your information. Alternatively, it may download malware onto your device.
Scammers like to center scams around problems with payment or billing information because it allows them to target your most sensitive data right away. Some Netflix text scams claim you must update your payment details because your card expired or was declined. As usual, they send a link that allegedly allows you to update your financial information and reactivate your account, but your financial details go right to the scammer.
Many different types of scams involve the same kinds of tactics, which means they feature some of the same red flags. Some warning signs are easy to spot, while others are a bit more subtle. The quicker you recognize the signs, the quicker you can shut down the scammer.
Although Netflix may not be able to reimburse you after a scam text, telling them about your experience may allow them to protect others from going through it themselves. You can forward Netflix scam text messages to phis...@netflix.com.
You can also report scam texts to the authorities to help them combat scammers and build their global databases. Getting your money back after being scammed can be difficult, but quickly alerting the authorities and giving them all of the information you can may improve your chances of catching the criminal.
Netflix text scams are just one iteration of the multi-billion-dollar text scam problem, but there are ways to protect yourself and take back your privacy. With the right spam-blocking app, you can fend off phone scams of any kind and block robocalls and scam texts before they can make it to your phone. That spam-blocking app is called Robokiller.
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Netflix is marking an end to 25 years of mailing out DVDs in red envelopes by offering to send subscribers extra discs from their queue. NPR's Chloe Veltman says fans are welcoming the gesture ahead of the service shutting down at the end of next month, but it's also causing confusion.CHLOE VELTMAN, BYLINE: Longtime Netflix DVD customer Moe Long is a self-described film buff in North Carolina. He says there are 500 movies sitting in his queue right now.MOE LONG: It's ridiculous (laughter). I don't think I'm going to get through that.VELTMAN: Before Netflix ends its DVD service, Long is hoping to get to as many of those films as he can, including 1978's "Foul Play."(SOUNDBITE OF FILM TRAILER, "FOUL PLAY")UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: A new comedy thriller starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase.VELTMAN: Long says once he's done, he plans, as usual, to return the discs to the sender.LONG: You don't get to keep the DVDs. You do have to send them back.VELTMAN: A Netflix spokesperson confirmed the company is indeed expecting to get the goods back. But Netflix's promotional email doesn't explicitly say that. Because the company is scrapping its DVD service, many subscribers, like Leslie Lowdermilk, are assuming it's a giveaway.LESLIE LOWDERMILK: It appeared to me that at the end of their time shipping these DVDs out, they're yours to keep. Because after all, what are they going to do with them?VELTMAN: That's a great question to put to a company that has shipped out more than 5 billion discs to customers since launching in 1998. DVDs are not easily recyclable. Most of them end up in landfill. Entertainment lawyer Lindsay Spiller says Netflix couldn't give the DVDs away even if it wanted to.LINDSAY SPILLER: The filmmakers and property rights owners give Netflix a license, and then they can sublicense it to their subscribers. But they can't give anybody ownership. They don't have it themselves.MARY GERBI: They really should have made it clear whether this was a rental and what the return period is versus whether people were getting to hold on to these things.VELTMAN: Massachusetts-based Netflix DVD customer Mary Gerbi says she hopes the streamer will find ethical ways to dispose of its massive stockpile of plastic.GERBI: Maybe to get them into libraries.VELTMAN: She says she just doesn't want the DVDs to go to waste.Chloe Veltman, NPR News.
This email right here is the sketchy one.This MIGHT be a malware.My guess is they used the netflix password reset on your email and when the email went through then try to phish you with a malware.But again i could be wrong BUT it would be best not open that PDF file
First, this is not an attack via Netflix, is an attack spoofing the email sender. It could be anything: Apple, NASA, whatever. Spoofing an email sender is as easy as writing any name and address on an paper envelope and sending it.
So i appear to have a similar issue to many others. I recently renewed my bundle and netflix is part of the new bundle. Excellent timing as my parents and I were sharing their netflix (sky) account, and netflix are cracking down on account sharing so this meant we would have our own accounts.
I received the netflix activation email within 24 hrs, but when i clicked on it it told me i already had a netflix account. In hindsight i think it assigned the new netflix subscription to my dad's netflix account (which i would have been logged into on my desktop) which is already linked to sky? In any event my dad's netflix account is still linked to sky, but i am unable to activate my own bundled netflix account through virginmedia now! I have logged out of the other netflix account, cleared all browsing history and cookies etc, but when i click on the activation email now i just get an error message.
I contacted technical support who said the netflix activation email is linked to the virginmedia login email address, which i am sure is nonsense, however we changed the virginmedia registered email address and they said they would send another activation email, but it never arrived.
I opened a complaint (which is still open) explaining everything. I received a reply in poor english advising that I should contact technical support by phone as they needed to "make real time checks". It would appear they never read my email. Trying to go back to technical support again leads to being sent an SMS with all the same advice so I am back to square one.
Thanks for speaking with us today @aurrian on the Virgin Media Community Forums.
I'm glad we have been able to get in touch with the team in regards to this.
As advised - we have sent our back end team the details so they can get you the Netflix activation email sent out.
It will take several days to process, let us know how it goes once it arrives.
Kind regards,
Ilyas.
on myvirginmedia, under entertainment services it looks like netflix is activated, as seen on screenshots, under "manage netflix" i only have the option to upgrade, so i am pretty sure the netflix activation tocken has been attributed to my father's netflix account, however when we log into his netflix account billing - it says the biulling is managed by sky. I am pretty sure i need a new activation email. Technical support seem to be unable to process this despite their promises. I would imagine if netflix was removed from my bundle and re-added it would probably generate a new activation email, but I have no way of getting support or advice as technical support just go through the same script and dont seem to be able to escalate the case to someone who can fix it.
I am working on a project in which I am creating a video streaming web service. What I have created till now is a service that synchronously write video content into user stream. But, my web service doesn't work the same way Youtube/Netflix work.
I was just wondering how Youtube/Netflix stream videos. These websites don't directly send video content to users' browser. I was looking into networks tabs in developers options and saw that both of these websites make new requests to Web APIs with range header changed. Can anyone please tell me how this works exactly.
Because videos are large and users don't want to wait until the whole video has been downloaded to play it back, most clients are designed to start video playback as soon as there is enough of the video for the client to be able to decode and start playback.
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