Customers of streaming service Netflix are being urged to exercise caution when checking and responding to emails from the company, as a scam email that looks almost identical to a legitimate customer service message circulates.

The email purports to come from Netflix – with the spelling "NETFLlX" using a lower-case L instead of an I, and the subject line "We've temporarily suspended your account until you verify your details."

Screen shot of a Netflix email phishing scam picked up in January 2019.

In the body of the email, the customer is informed their account has been "suspeneded [sic]" due to "issues in the automatic verification process" and warned that if they don't update their details their account will be deleted.

After the customer clicks on the "update your details" button, they are redirected to a site that looks just like a real Netflix login page, where they can "log in" and then enter their full credit card details.