asked Currently, Netflix customers via SMS to update your payment information. This you should not do, since the messages come from the Streaming provider.
Munich – It is not the first Time that unsuspecting customers are being ripped off by unscrupulous profiteers. Often scammers claim to be employees of the company and ask for the customer’s personal data. Currently, the Streaming provider Netflix has been clamped for this mesh. The subscribers will be harassed with fake SMS in the name of Netflix, the Chip reports Online. In the SMS it goes to the last payment of the Netflix subscription, which was said to be wrong. Therefore, the access to updated data. Usually, the U.S. company contacted its users by E-Mail.
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This is about the fake Netflix-SMS-known
The SMS is not from Netflix, and should not be opened, and the best will be deleted. To whom they are sent, is still unclear. You can randomly be any of the people or systematically to Netflix customers and former subscribers sent. According to initial information, the Text is according to the report, always the same: “We could not process your last payment Please update your payment information, to be able to Netflix continue to enjoy”, – stated in the message. Below the message, a web address is specified, this varies, however in the SMS. Using this address, the customer should be updated. The Link you should click. It could be that the sites contain malicious Software or viruses or forward.
First of all, according to Chip Online two sender numbers are known, both of them have a Norwegian area code: +4798306441 / +4798307466.
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