Cyber crooks are once again blasting out fake holiday e-greeting cards in a bid their special kind of cheer. Also, there are signs that computer viruses may again be piggybacking on digital photo frames and other data storage devices that make popular holiday gifts.
E-greeting scams are hardly new, but they tend to increase around major holidays, probably because consumers are more receptive to opening them at these times and because more people are home in front of their computers.
Most of these e-greeting scams try to foist malicious software by claiming the recipient needs to install some application in order to view the card, such as Adobe's Flash Player. Almost invariably, the downloaded program isn't a legitimate add-on, but malware.
According to Symantec, some of the fake e-card domains being used in this scam include (please don't visit any of these sites):
* [http://]itsfatherchristmas.com
* [http://]bestchristmascard.com
* [http://]whitewhitechristmas.com
* [http://]christmaslightsnow.com
* [http://]freechristmasworld.com
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