Has someone sent you an e-card?
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Sending someone an e-card can be a nice gesture and can be environmentally friendly
There are loads of legitimate e-card sites out there, which will help you to send your e-cards without incident.
Unfortunately, there’s also a load of viruses that are transmitted disguised as e-cards.
We received this email a couple of minutes ago
You have received an e-card
To pick up your eCard, click on the following link (or copy & paste it into your web browser):
http://kamien-grabica.**.**/ecard.exe (LINK DISABLED)
Your card will be aviailable for pick-up beginning for the next 30 days.
This one links to e-card.exe, a nasty little virus which has been reported to cause some machines to display the “Blue screen of Death” and refuse to boot in anything but safe mode.
So how do I tell if someone really has sent me an e-card?
If there’s no name on the email and it just says “Someone sent you an e-card” then delete it. A legitimate e-card site will tell you who has sent the e-card.
Email your friend (using the email address in your contacts, not the one from the email) to ask them if they really did send you an e-card. Explain nicely that you’re wary of opening e-cards because you’ve heard that some of them contain viruses. If you get a response saying “Yes, I sent it”, then you know it’s for real. If they respond “Hey, nice to hear from you, but it wasn’t me” then you can safely delete the email without fear of offending anyone!