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Netflix account stolen.
On friday last I received an email from Netflix informing me that they had changed the email address on my account as I had instructed. I then received a second email to say that they had changed my account passsword as I had instructed. I had not requested any changes. I discovered that my Netflix was now unusable.
I telephoned Netflix support immediatly and discovered that someone in Morroco had taken control of my netflix account. With help from support I had to reset all the details on my account. This was not easy due to the fact that the culprit had changed the account language from english to arabic resulting in all the recovery instructions emailed from Netflix being in arabic. As a precaution I have also cancelled the credit card associated the acccount. An unerving experience to say the least. |
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How do you normally access Netflix for viewing?
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....An unerving experience to say the least.
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A couple of years back I had cause to check the settings in Netflix and found that, amongst all the regular viewing history/IP addresses, someone in Texas had been using my account and watching stuff! How? I have no idea. This was a time when I only ever used it on one device in one location and hadn't shared the info with anyone. Bizarre.
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A couple of years back I had cause to check the settings in Netflix and found that, amongst all the regular viewing history/IP addresses, someone in Texas had been using my account and watching stuff! How? I have no idea. This was a time when I only ever used it on one device in one location and hadn't shared the info with anyone. Bizarre.
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I was a victim for an iTunes scam a few years ago. Thankfully I hadn't linked my credit card to it and was just topping up using gift cards. They swiped around £50 worth of apps, games and movies.
It is a horrible experience so I sympathise with the OP. For digital services such as Netflix, I now always use PayPal as the payment method. If they don't support it, I don't subscribe. All you need to do is click 'Unsubscribe' and thats it, the chain is broken - the funds will stop being paid to Netflix from the next month. Of course you'd need to make sure your PayPal password was different to your Netflix one (which it should be in any case) as well as two factor authentication. |
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Had you ever used a service to watch the US Netflix if so that would show show up as being in the US.
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