New form of irritating SPAM
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Here’s a new SPAM email I’ve been getting. Without any exaggeration, I’m getting about 8-10 of these emails every day.
They all claim to be from different people - American Greetings, greetingcards.com, postcard.com, et cetera. The only difference between them, other than the “From:” address (which is a lie), is the first line. Some examples of what has been used there are:
Class mate has sent you a greeting card.
Class-mate has sent you a postcard.
Neighbor has sent you a greeting ecard.
School mate has sent you a greeting card.
and, my personal favorite,
Worshipper has sent you an ecard.
I especially like the “Terms Of Use” policy they’ve included which says, essentially, “when you download our virus, it isn’t our fault.”
Just how dumb do these people think I am? I’m supposed to go, “Oh, look. There’s an e-card from someone who didn’t give their name and to see it all I have to do is click this link that has an IP address instead of a domain name. Okay.”<Click>”Dang. How’d I get that virus?”
PUH LEEZE!
FYI, I’ve destroyed the URL in the email pasted below so nobody tries to go there. A # symbol is substituted for any number 0-9, and the letter L was substituted for any letter A-Z.
Hi. Class mate has sent you a greeting card.
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:http://##.##.##.###/?###########L#L#L#####LL##L
Or copy and paste it into your browser’s “Location” box (where Internet
addresses go).PRIVACY
greetingcards.com honors your privacy. Our home page and Card Pick Up have links to
our
Privacy Policy.TERMS OF USE
By accessing your card you agree we have no liability.
If you don’t know the person sending the card or don’t wish to see the card,
please disregard this Announcement.We hope you enjoy your awesome card.
Wishing you the best,
Administrator,
greetingcards.com
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