e-card hoax email

[justplain]

hi guys, just let you know, if you havent already received one of these, there are a number of mails going around saying that you have been sent an e-card. they look very legit, although the senders email does look dodgy if you look closely.
it takes you to a website and says your download should start in 15 sec or click the link.
when you click the link you'll get a virus alert!
the email looks something like this...:


Subject: Family member sent you a postcard from NetFunCards.Com!

Family member has created a postcard for you at NetFunCards.Com, the Internet's most popular greeting card service.

Your greeting card ID is: 7a85955ab65e8517a32e6b9ea6878b15d7

To see your custom greeting card, simply click on the link below:
http://86.126.91.248/?7a85955ab65e8517a32e6b9ea6878b15d7

Send greeting cards from NetFunCards.Com whenever you want by visiting us at:
http://NetFunCards.Com/
Copyright (c) 1996-2007 NetFunCards.Com All Rights Reserved

 

[Freshy-ZN]

Yeah theres k@kloads of those doing the rounds at the moment.

 

[The_Techie]

I've been getting about 50 or so of them the past 2 weeks

 

[AirWolf]

Yeah theres k@kloads of those doing the rounds at the moment.

Yep If you don't have gmail, now would be a good time to get it --> I don't even bother with the spam emails because google is excellent at sending them to the spam folder

 

[The_Techie]

True, I only noticed these because my Spam folder was a bit larger than I expected

 

[AirWolf]

The other hoax emails doing the rounds for some time now are the phishing emails asking you update your internet banking details or face suspension of service. These emails contain links to fake websites that look very similar to the legit banking sites.

 

[The_Techie]

They'll only catch people who have no clue how banks operate... But if you can inform the people about this before hand, the chances that even those people will fall for it will be reduced

Spread the word, people!