Netflix account on the black market at $ 0.25 each: eye to fraud

The computer security company Symantec is warning users about fraudulent downloads masked by the promise of getting Netflix cheap. The fraud is based on a phishing campaign aimed at stealing true credentials with which you have access to the online video-streaming service.

With Netflix, which is spreading like wildfire around the world and is available in 190 different nations fraud-related services are increasing in parallel in frequency. The campaign is targeting users of the various regions: in Brazil, for example, users can install masked malicious files from the service installation packages.

Example email scam

These are located within seemingly reputable websites that actually offer the Netflix subscription at an extremely affordable price. Users are attracted within these sites through banner ads (probably from non-conventional circuits), but the client pretended they propose to download contains a trojan that attempts to steal banking data stored on the target machine.

Another possibility of fraud resulting from the traditional and well-established phishing emails that lead users to a fake page Access to Netflix. If an experienced user can easily recognize the fraud and possibly report it, the less savvy may naively hand over your credentials for access to the service and also those of your bank account under specific request.

The credentials of the stolen Netflix accounts are then sold on the black market even at $ 0.25 for orders of a minimum of four accounts. But we must respect the clauses: the buyer for example may not change your user name or other credentials, as it could arouse suspicion, and the company could take action on the matter of investigating accounts and blocking those deemed fraudulent.