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E-Mail Greeting Card Scams Unfortunately, in today's world with advancing technology, comes scam artists looking for new way to scam people out of their money and download damaging files onto computers. One of the scams out there is the greeting card scam. This will come as an email with a subject line that leads you to believe that someone has sent you an "ecard". DON'T click any links or attachments included in these emails. They will download a virus or other malicious software onto your computer immediately, unless your computer is very well protected. Be especially careful if the card doesn't address you by name, tell you who sent you the card, or a special event such as your birthday isn't approaching. These emails will ask you to click a link or download an attachment. Please be aware that some scammer fraudentally use names of real greeting card companies to try to trick you into thinking the email is harmless. They may even use trademarked pictures or graphics from real greeting card company website to make you believe it's an actual, safe ecard. If you recieve an email that you think might fraudulent, ask your friends and family member sent you an ecard. If they didn't, just delete the email. If you clicked any links in the body of the email, scan your system for viruses immediately. Here is a picture of an ecard email scam that I recieved. It wants me to visit this URL, but of course I'm not going to. If you get an email gretting card scam email, you can forward it to me and I'll take a screenshot of it for this page. Remember to be careful about any emails that you recieve from an unknown sender. If you wish, you can file a complain about fraudulent emails with IC3.org.