I’ve had Netflix France for a year or more now and of course had to sign a dd for the monthly fee.
To start with it was on the 4th of the month but then a few months ago I noticed that they were taking the payment on the first. Annoying but not a big problem.
Today, just now, I have received a text message to say that the debit has been refused, and it is only the 27th today.
Now this text could just be spam and thus to be ignored, but this creeping advancement of the due date is another thing altogether and I am seriously considering cancelling it anyway. Only problem is that, within the 90% absolute crap there are the occasional gems, so not easy to totally ignore this.
I thought I had by saying the above Graham, it is pretending to be from Netflix, I don’t think for a moment that La Poste would message me pretending to be someone else.
thanks for clearing that up but has the bank actually started paying earlier than first setup and is “the call to action” inviting you to contact the faux “netflix” which would confirm details of your account?
How do you think they got the details/information about (the existence of) your account in the first place
I’m not being accusatorial, just curious as to why they targetted you.
I think this is really targetted towards people who have smartphones because it says please bring your details up to date and that is followed by an http link. I suppose it is a scam thinking that people who could might panic and click the weblink, thus giving away something or other. Obviously with my ordinary little telephone I can’t do that so there is no danger of getting caught out.
How they got the number in the first mplace is anyone’s guess, although I don’t get anywhere near the vast number of spams on my email address, this is not entirely unusual.
Not sure how DDs work, I suppose Netflix applies to the bank and is paid, rather than the bank obeying a regular, dated, instruction from me. I remember many years ago I foolishly set up one with SFR and the bank said I couldn’t cancel it, only SFR could and that they were duty bound to keep paying if presented. That was with CA, who told me I would have to close the account as the only way to stop them. Fortunately they did finally, after 3 months taking money, stop and re-imburse me.
so called scatter gun basically… they send out thousands in one tranche expecting a small %age to panic and click which simply confirms the existence of the account (sometime the number too is just as valuable to them). Don’t imagine that some coolie sits there punching in random numbers… it doesn’t work like that.
For example, I got the “crit-air” spam message in the early hours of this morning. My telephone number isn’t shared anywhere…
On checking my bank statement just now I found that Netflix did not take a payment in December, and logging on to my La Poste account just now, find that they haven’t taken it in January also.
Checked on the tv and I see that they have apparently closed the account. Very mysterious but not bothered as I was thinking of cancelling it anyway, spending most of my time, when away from normal channels, on YT these days. So very happy, saved me the trouble of working out how to do it.
There was the young man that the detective lady was hired to find for the wealthy father. I’m not sure where he is. Maybe his name wasn’t Henry. Maybe Nigel. Whatever it was, I have a bad feeling about his condition
Arghhh. No spoilers please! Am just heading back to France and Netflix after a quick trip to Northern Ireland during which my mother made me watch bloody Shetland.
