Watch out for 123 Greetings, there is an imposter.

I don't like those cards. Most of them have spyware attached. It makes me very upset, because family has good intentions with bad results. I told my friends and family not to send me any electronic cards.

No, I haven't received anything like this recently but I'm definitely going to heed your warning! I don't get cards from 123 Greetings (or any other ecard site) very often but do get them occasionally. I didn't know about the 20-digit and letter assigned to each one. I'll make sure to count them if I ever do receive another email saying it's from 123 Greetings. Thanks for the heads up! I think internet criminals are getting more and more desperate these days and will stop at nothing to get whatever they can from us, even if it's just our peace of mind from a virus-free computer. Even when we get emails that claim they are from our friends or family, we can't be too careful.

i get emails like this all the time at work but i never open them because my hubby is the only one that sends me cards and we use dayspring for them.

This is scary - thanks for the warning. I'm sure you're right that if you had opened it, you'd have gotten a virus or something. It seems you can't trust anything any more and they're constantly trying new ways to trick their way into our computers. Thanks again

I don't know about that site but thanks for the heads up. I got a similar experience once and the site was whoremembersme.com They said someone had left me a message but before I can read that message I need to sign up first and provide ten email addresses of people I knew to verify if those people have some message left for them too. I was in a computer shop so I was confident to do anything. I entered some email address of my contacts then pressed submit. I kept getting the error that those email address I entered was not a valid one and after so many tries I gave up on it. I think it was phishing mail or something

Oh how true. You were very smart to check into the site. My fiance and I always send each other cards through 123 greetings. When you receive a card from someone they will actually tell you in the subject line from what email address the card is from. The legitimate site does not just say from a family member (come on how would they know it was family,it could be a friend) I do keep finding emails in my spam box that claim 123 greeting is sending me an update or a newsletter. I never open these because I know that isn't how 123 greeting works and they have been white listed so it would go to my in box not my spam. I figure like you either viruses or someone trying to scam something. So I just delete them.

No I haven't but thanks for the warning!

hi dragon54u oh yes and my AVG 9 was right on top of it, do not open, virus,virus put in vault. oh those greeting card emails things are so dangerous. I learned the hard way and at that time had Nortons but nortons had a flaw and let my computer get really messed up. My son had to eradicate the virus by using his computer to do so.never again I do not download anything. not unless my friends tell me they are sending me something and it has to be a certain time certain day. my avg9 is so good and it really does its job.

It never ceases to amaze me how much time is spend on finding ways to spam us. Can you imagine what that energy could do in the real world? Now that is a scary thought.

Have not received this particular virus. However, I use a very good free spyware program which is constantly scanning my pc for any known viruses. Think about getting anit-virus software to put your mind at ease.

Thanks for the heads up!