ECARD attacks plus pfishing

2011 jun 11

A new category of scam emails is now doing the rounds.

Emails are being sent out claiming that you have received an "ecard" from a famous online card company. The email contains a link entitle "Click here to view" (or similar). The link does not display an ecard. Instead it starts up an executable program on a remote server. DO NOT click on the link.

The "twist" is that the email message also contains a pfishing message concerning a British bank in the plain text portion of the message.

These scam messages seem now to be evolving and combining ... strange ...