Fake email with a subject A friend has sent you an eGreeting.
ADVERTISEMENTBe careful while opening a email with subject - A friend has sent you an eGreeting! Enjoy it!.
On clicking on the greeting card link, it downloads a executable containing a malware. The text displayed shows that it is from egreetings.com but where as the actual hyperlinks takes you to a malware site - 12rota.nilonet.com/
The fake email looks like as shown below.
Hi , a friend has sent you a greeting card just now!
Please click the link below to view your sent Greeting Card….If the link is not clickable just copy and
paste or type the address in your browser..ENJOY!!
this is a flash executable that you can save on your hard drive so you can look at it anytime you like!
Your Sent Greeting Card http://www.egreetings.com/pickup.htm?pid=11197042e48H0
If you have trouble using the link we provided, please follow these easy steps:
1) Click this link to go to our homepage,
or copy and paste it into your browser’s address line:http://www.egreetings.com2) Enter your card ID 11197042e48H0 in the Pick up ID Box
Your card will be available for you 30 days. If you would like to send a card yourself please go to :http://www.egreetings.com</a
Get your egreetings.com Reminder Service
and Printable Calendars http://www.egreetings.com/reminder© Copyright 2000-2007 www.egreetings.com Free Online Greeting Cards
This pretends to be a mail from egreetings but it is not. The best way to keep away from such attack is to use the second option of entering the card id and pick your card from egreetings. And if it is genuine email you can still pick up your card otherwise egreetings would display it as an invalid code as shown below.
