Source: Lily Hay Newman, November 7, 2017
THE EMAIL HITS your inbox with an urgent warning: Your Netflix account has been suspended, due to a problem with your billing information. It offers a link, which takes you to what looks very much like a Netflix landing page. It’s not. Instead, it’s a phishing scam that collects extensive personal data on victims.
But as with all of the most pernicious phishes, the problem with the Netflix phish isn’t just its convincing look—it’s that whoever’s behind it has found new ways to bypass spam filters over and over again.
