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It comes with the subject

You've received a postcard from a family member!

Good day.

Your family member has sent you an ecard from 123greetings.com.

Send free ecards from 123greetings.com with your choice of colors, words and music.

Your ecard will be available with us for the next 30 days. If you wish to keep the ecard longer, you may save it on your computer or take a print.

To view your ecard, choose from any of the following options:

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OPTION 1
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Click on the following Internet address or
copy & paste it into your browser's address box.

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when you go to the page it is an embedded ecard.exe file

I will check further but this is a scam or even worse
nb. there is nothing wrong with 123greetings.com, but what happens is the link is displayed as 123greetings.com, but the actual target address of the link is something like 210.192.421.345/img/ (i have changed this address so it won't kill you if you are stupid enough to click on it!)
Basically the scum are using 123greetings.com as a disguise for their devious endeavours, they could have (and may well do) use any of the many online greeting cards operators.
btw this scam has been around for a few years now...
Thanks for that. :thumbs: I have a few friends that use 123Greetings regularly so I'll be careful from now on when I receive one of their notifications.
thanks Ade, strangely enough it was the first one I have received

:haha:
Today I received two of those strange ecards....

The one was from dgreetings.com telling me a colleague has sent me a card...

and the second one from greet2K.com telling me a partner has sent me a card...

I think it is similar to what TheDuck warned us about a few weeks back.

:bashpc:
This is what they look like - just received two today.

[COLOR="Blue"]Hi. Colleague has sent you a greeting ecard.
See your card as often as you wish during the next 15 days.

SEEING YOUR CARD

If your email software creates links to Web pages, click on your card's direct www address below while you are connected to the Internet:

69.247.177.160/?c955099675c50080d0229e368412571d7d

Or copy and paste it into your browser's "Location" box (where Internet addresses go).

We hope you enjoy your awesome card.

Wishing you the best,
Webmaster,
dgreetings.Com

[/COLOR]
The second one looks like this:

[COLOR="Blue"]Hi. Partner has sent you a greeting ecard.
See your card as often as you wish during the next 15 days.

SEEING YOUR CARD

If your email software creates links to Web pages, click on your card's direct www address below while you are connected to the Internet:

200.206.222.150/?33165b19d3383b4c009ee64d82c3a9

Or copy and paste it into your browser's "Location" box (where Internet addresses go).

We hope you enjoy your awesome card.

Wishing you the best,
Mail Delivery System,
greet2k.com
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[COLOR="Red"]One came from dgreetings.com and the other one from greet2K.com

So beware! [/COLOR]