Don’t fall for this scam!

Merge 104.8  |  06 April 2020

Watch out for a new scam devised to entice you with free Netflix subscription packages.



The scam – which claims to provide people with links of free a Netflix subscription for three months if they promise to stay at home in light of the Coronavirus pandemic – is currently being circulated over messaging application, WhatsApp.

The Ministry of Technology and Communications confirmed that the ‘link is being sent as messages to people over WhatsApp’ and is ‘a message lined with malicious promotional offers’.

Watch out for a new scam devised to entice you with free Netflix subscription packages. Netflix only offers only one month trials upon signing up, but people are being lured with three-month free subscription packages as a ploy to get their bank information and personal data.

A link directs you to a page similar to that of Netflix to collect your bank information prior to signing up, and once you enter your username and password, the data is stolen.

Source: Al Wisal