Is it just me? Am I suddenly the most popular person in the world that I’m receiving so many greeting cards from people I don’t even know?
It looks like the spammers found another way to bug your life, but this time with love. They now send you fake “greeting card” messages and I’m getting like about 30-40 of them daily.
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According to Chris Pirillo:
How can you identify these messages?
- It use a generic name instead of your real name
- It asks you to visit a website that you’ve never heard of
- It tells you that you need to download some custom software
- It asks for your bank or credit card information
- It doesn’t list who the card came from
- It lists one of your friends’ names, but your friend did not send the card
Greeting card spam is not really nothing new. But like all trends, it comes one full circle.
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Yeah, since this greeting card spam is around, I get greeting cards from a old school friend, from our 70something y.o. neighbour, who doesn’t have even an internet account or from a family member in china.
It is around 50 greeting cards every day and it gets annoying together with all these other spam.
Yeah, I’ve been getting quite a few of these “greeting card” spam e-mails the last few weeks. I don’t know if a lot of people are falling for this - but to me a greeting card from my friend, a colleague, my neighbor and a family member (all on the same day) looks a little bit suspicious
I’m also got a lot of those greating card…I’ve deleted 50++ a day.. that’s suck.
Yeahh, It’s really pissed me off as well. f..king spamers !
Regards from Poland