DANGER - Security Warning

A while ago I had one of these cross through my e-mail. It included a link to remove from the list, which I clicked because I had no interest and it lead to a sign up page so i deleted at that point.

thanks karen.

Whenever there is something wonderful that comes along, like the Internet, there are always those willing to spoil it. I wonder what makes these people tick, anyway? They must be so unhappy in life.

Thanks, Karen for the updates and also to Sheila. It's the first I've heard about the "group joining" thingy. I'll be on my guard and on the lookout for them.

Just be careful of the ones that come with the name of someone known to you. I'd recommend contacting them but contacting them by e-mail is not an option. In most cases their address book has been hijacked. So unless you know them well enough to have a phone number I'd recommend deleting it.

Karen,

Thanks so much for this information. Yesterday I received an e-mail from a supposed group asking me to join. Unfortunately I did and then started receiving all kinds of odd e-mail. It didn't ask me to do anything about my profile. After this happened people kept asking me to remove them from the list which I had not added anyone to any list. One person got really ugly with me and I had to get a little bit ugly back. Once I made this person know for sure that I was not the owner o

Hey there! Just came across this subject....I am your friendly neighborhood cyber crime slayer....in my groups I try to keep you up with the 'new' in cyber crime
Hard to do....but I am protected, and taken care of...but out here getting you all on the same page.
Join my groups, on all updates on new THREATS!
Jenn

I've even started a site http://419scams.tblog.com/ to show all the stupid SPAM I get all the time! I've also gotten this e-card scam...

Hi All,

I'm glad no one here has fallen for this. It's a new spin on an old game.

Today my inboxes were full of another hoax - for lack of a better word. Similar to that which Bewcastle mentions - several similiar emails with a variation of "welcome to... ___", appearing to be a legitimate program with a link to go update your profile.

I have to wonder if these people put this kind of effort into something positive what kind a difference they could make in the world!

Some of the sites affected have warnings posted about these scammers who claim to be from them so one technique to avoid these problems is to go look at the site directly by typing the address into a browser window. I dont get may of the e-card ones tho I do get a lot of the bank or jobsite ones. One I got a little while ago loads a site that sayhs if secure login doesnt load then download this .exe file ..... guess what it didnt load so an unsuspecting user might download it and no doubt it was

hello karen,

I have been getting tons of these emails,
but I have not opened any of them,

so far (knock on wood) none of them has come from anybody I know,

when I first started to get them I was really tempted to open one
but I had heard about this before
so I got an Idea to email everyone I know and ask if they have sent me an ecard,
they all responded they had not,
so I let them know about these ecards and not to open any of them

and if they did send me one to instant messa

Hi Karen

Thanks for sharing this am seeing them in my box also havent click on them yet know it was a scam or something like that

Robert Phillips

Thanks for the head up Karen.

Thank you, I ve seen these in my mail but have yet to open one. Good thing i didnt. Your a blessing in disguise.

Thanks Karen (and everybody else!) I'm glad to know I'm not the only person getting these!

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Thanks for the warning . I am getting a lot of those cards for about last month. Lucky they come to my scam folder and I just delete.
If card doesn't tell the name od sender - it is scam! This is my rule.

cheers to all from Portugal

doing support for 3 differnet web sites i get about 30 to 50 a day and i delete all of them as i have no friends, a buddy, a family
member, a colleague, a mate, etc etc... that would send a online greeting as i tell everyone not to send them and if they do i won't open them.

Most knows if its not direct from a friend or family i wont even read it the delete button works wonders when you don't know who is the real sender. as for support emails its direct from the members of the sites or from

This is true. You can check it out at "Snopes" and "Urban Legends."

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp

This is why we network and help each other out. That we can be one step ahead of the scammers out there. Thanks Karen

Thanks for the warning Karen! I have received several of these also but my spam blocker stopped them for me for which I am grateful. I have started deleting all of them.

Have a wonderful day!