The Weyburn, SK, Police Service received numerous calls last week from people saying they received a text from Netflix stating their payment didn't go through.

Sergeant Shane St. John said nobody local has reported to have fallen for this scam.

"They'll phone us or just ignore it, because it's odd," he shared. "A lot of people won't even have Netflix so they don't even know what it is. And then people with Netflix might get concerned, but they'll either call us or just figure it out as a scam. So I wouldn't recommend clicking on it.

He said while most people figure it out right away, in order to ensure scammers are held accountable, you can report it directly to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. 

"You can report frauds directly to them, where they keep a database of it," said St. John. "We will report things to them, like with the CRA one, when there was lots of that going on, we would document and send to them. Because they were instrumental in helping take some of those down overseas where there were call centres actually set up with these CRA [scammers] trying to scam money from people in Canada."

St. John said the AFC will be aware of these scams, but the local police only report it to them if someone is defrauded.

"Luckily no one's falling for it, or if they are, they're not reporting it to us," he noted.

He said even if someone has fallen for it, they don't need to be embarassed.

"If they fell for it, they fell for it, but they need to make that report to us if they're out money, because they could be reimbursed through their banking institution," he said. "It's important if it does go through, we would want all that information as to what occurred."

He added that if Netflix doesn't receive your payment, they wouldn't try to rectify the situation via text, but rather through the email address used to sign up to the account. In some cases, Netflix will verify passwords, etc, via text, but those instances will always be solicited by the account holder.