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Guardia Civil and INCIBE Warn of Netflix Phishing Targeting Payment Data in Spain

Officials urge users to bypass email links, report to OSI, then contact their bank if they submitted information.

Overview

  • Spain’s Guardia Civil and INCIBE-OSI issued an active alert after detecting a coordinated campaign that impersonates Netflix to steal banking details.
  • Messages claim a payment problem and prompt a “new payment method,” then lead through a simple math step to a fake Netflix login and a form that captures full card data.
  • Authorities flag telltales including the subject line “NETFLIX – Actualiza tu cuenta para volver a ver,” non-Netflix sender domains, mismatched URLs, and manufactured urgency.
  • Some victims report receiving the fraud via SMS, with posts on X noting texts that mirror the email scheme.
  • OSI considers users who entered data affected and advises contacting the bank to block cards, reviewing charges, preserving evidence, filing a complaint, forwarding the message to its incident mailbox, deleting it, blocking the sender, changing reused passwords, enabling two-factor authentication, and navigating to Netflix by typing the official address.