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Phishing is one of the top cybercrimes and people who may not be as computer savvy are
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definitely vulnerable to these kinds of attacks. So I just want to share with you a phishing email that I recently received where the sender
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presented themselves as Netflix trying to get my username and password. And hopefully this will give you or other people in your life an idea of how to spot
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a phishing email. Now before I start there are several characteristics of phishing emails which you'll see up on
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the screen. I'll point some of these out as we look at the email
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So let's take a look at this email. Now inside my iPhone you'll notice that there is a message that comes from Netflix and there
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is that sense of urgency saying that my account has been suspended
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So when I click on the email sometimes phishing emails are very obvious
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This one is fairly decent. You'll notice that the Netflix logo is there
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Now it is somewhat poorly worded. You can see it says we're having some trouble with your current billing information
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Would you like to retry running your card again? That wording probably is not going to come from a corporate site but whatever
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Some other things at the bottom you'll notice is that they listed the correct address for Netflix
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The address that's currently listed on Google. So this kind of looks like a semi-legitimate email but if I click at the top Netflix ID
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is kind of a strange sender name. So if I click on that Netflix ID you'll notice that the sender while the name says Netflix
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ID you can see that this email is just a whole bunch of characters at oracle.com which tells
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me that it was automatically created. The other thing that you'll notice and I'm not going to be able to do this now but if
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I click on update payment account it's going to take me to a site probably one where it
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asks me to enter information. Now if you're on an iPhone there's a pretty good chance that you'll be okay as long as
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you don't enter any information. If you're on a regular laptop or desktop sometimes when you click on links it will generate automatic
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attacks to your account. But like I said if you don't click on that link you should be okay
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But what you can do when this happens number one don't click on that link
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If you do click on the link definitely don't enter any personal information
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The other thing that you can do is in this case most companies that have that are prone
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to phishing attacks will allow you to have an email that you can report it to
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So you can send this email to phishing at netflix.com and they will at least be aware
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of it. And then the third thing you can do is once you have an email inside your inbox that you
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know is phishing just go ahead and delete that email. So hopefully this helps you or maybe someone in your life who may not be that computer
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savvy is susceptible to attacks like this in emails. Hopefully this helps being able to not only distinguish some of the features of this Netflix
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phishing scam but also phishing emails in general
