Re: Free e-card question

de John Corliss 06/17/2006 04:44

BoB wrote:
>>> This may not be the group to ask and if not - sorry.
>>>
>>> Was wondering if anyone knew of a good free e-card site where the
>>> cards no not have all the animations, shockwave, etc?? Everyone does
>>> not have broadband like I do and some of those cards really take a
>>> while to load on a slow dialup connection.
>>>
>>> TIA
>
> The best advice I can give anyone regarding *ANY* "e-card" site is to
> stay away from them, delete any email announcing an "e-card" *before*
> viewing it, and to tell your friends they should stay away from
> "e-card" sites. One of the primary means of infection by malware is
> through the use of so called "e-cards", or more accurately "social
> engineering devices".

Worse than that, they're email address gathering scams. I changed my
user account name and got a new email address as a result. Then I
emailed everybody in my address book and told them not to send me ecards
or include me in group sends.

My cousin sent me an ecard after a couple of months (she seemed to have
forgotten that I asked her not to) and I immediately started getting
spam again. And it was all from one source, directly attributable to the
ecard.

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Regards from John Corliss
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for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.