These scam emails are getting better.

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Woke up to this morning to an email from “Netflix”. Dismissed it straight away because it didn’t have the Netflix email. Even checked my Netflix myself to make sure.

Then doubt crept it. So I clicked the link which luckily the scammers had effed up and didn’t work properly.

If it nearly fooled me, what about people who are easily confused.

How realistic does this look though

Does it say 'Dear your email address'?

That's a big red flag. A couple of Americanised spellings too.

Yeah. Dear my address

That is what initially made me and then I saw the sender info was from customer care and that made me even more sceptical

I've has all sorts of fake ones.

Usually the "f" isn't written using normal text in the email senders name

The grammar in the text is terrible too.

I work in Fraud, so wanted to give you a heads up by clicking on the link (even though you mentioned it didn't work properly) the scammers are usually alerted that you have clicked on the link and therefore now know your email address is valid. What the scammers then do is sell the email addresses on to other scammers who will then try to target you.

If in doubt, click on the senders name, it will show the full email address, usually something obviously not legit.

If they'd stayed at the same level as the first one I ever got then they'd have never got anywhere. It said something along the lines of.

"Dear wonderful person. I am the owner of loydds bank ltd. I detect very bad activity on your beautiful account. Click here and I much have your account number and passowrd for online banking and I will do much good for you. Do quickly or more bad activity hapens."

Rule of thumb: Never click on a link unless you are totally and utterly sure.

Clicking the link can do other weird stuff too, which I can't recall off the top of my head. Listen to the Darknet Diaries podcast, loads of info there about ways spam emails are used in early episodes. Or google it.