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.

While the Netflix phish has garnered recent headlines, it dates back at least to January, when threat researchers at the security firm FireEye first detected it. It prompts victims to type in their username and password and then presents a form to update their billing information (things like full name, date of birth, address, and phone number). After that, another form asks them to validate their payment method by entering their credit card info. Some versions of the phish even ask for a Social Security number. Do you have any issues while using your Netflix Account? Do you want to know How to Contact Netflix Support Team?

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