20 eCards

Electronic greeting cards or ecards are an online criminal’s dream, which is why they have their own chapter. Trusted family and friends sending emails via a third-party system with links to another website or download for a program to show a funny animation or a personalise message. The whole system is fundamentally the same as how criminals deliver malware to their victims, so copying it and putting in their viruses is easy for them. Add in personal information taken from other sources and you get fake e-cards sent on your birthday from what appears to be your friends. Here is a typical ecard email:

Unfortunately, it is fake.

Below is a real ecard, though the safest thing to do is not use them or accept them at all and just email your friends and family directly.

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