More fake greeting cards, ecards, postcards, Virus warning

Recently, many more of these fake phising ecards, postcards, greeting cards have appears. They always look exactly the same, the only thing that changes is how they are addressed: Friend, family member, mate, class-mate, worshippper, etc., and from which web service the come from, i.e. american greetings, e-cards.com, all-yours.net, 2000greetings.com, freewebcards.com, vintagepostcards.com, 123greetings.com, riversong.com, postcards.com, greet2k.com, netfuncards.com, hallmark.com etc.
They sure made a nice little program to randiomize the senders and the greetings to try to fool you into clicking on their links.
DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS!

Here is a recent list of such emails in my junk box:

Phishing using Greeting cards/ecards, Virus warning

Recently, I got e-greeting cards in my email, one apparently from a neighbor, one from a friend. However, I didn't expect any cards. A careful check of the IP addresses on which one was supposed to click showed that they are not the same as the one from the company from which the e-greeting was supposed to come.

Here are the two examples:

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Subject: Celebrate Your Nation
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Hi. Friend has sent you a greeting ecard.
See your card as often as you wish during the next 15 days.

SEEING YOUR CARD

If your email software creates links to Web pages, click on your card's direct www address below while you are connected to the Internet:

xxx.xx.xx.xxx (IP number removed for security reasons)

Or copy and paste it into your browser's "Location" box (where Internet addresses go).



PRIVACY
2000greetings.com honors your privacy. Our home page and Card Pick Up have links to our Privacy Policy.

TERMS OF USE
By accessing your card you agree we have no liability. If you don't know the person sending the card or don't wish to see the card, please disregard this Announcement.

We hope you enjoy your awesome card.

Wishing you the best,
Mail Delivery System,
2000greetings.com

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Subject: You've received a greeting postcard from a neighbour!
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:22:06 +0200
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Good day.

Your neighbour has sent you a greeting postcard from Hallmark.Com.

Send free ecards from Hallmark.Com with your choice of colors, words and music.

Your ecard will be available with us for the next 30 days. If you wish to keep the ecard longer, you may save it on your computer or take a print.

To view your ecard, choose from any of the following options:

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OPTION 1
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Click on the following Internet address or
copy & paste it into your browser's address box.

xxx.xx.xx.xxx (IP number removed for security reasons)

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OPTION 2
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Copy & paste the ecard number in the "View Your Card" box at xxxxx (removed)

Your ecard number is
xxxxx (removed)

Best wishes,
Mailer-Daemon,
Hallmark.Com

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These emails are BOGUS, FAKE, neither of the IPs (deleted above) pointed to 2000greetings or hallmark.
I found further information on this type of fraud also at purportal.com/spam/1852/ and www.scambusters.org/ecards.html.
The sole purpose of these emails is to direct the reader to a fraudulent web site, with the purpose of infecting your computer with spyware or viruses, or otherwise obtaining information from you to exploit.

This threat is very, very insidious (dangerous), because a simple click to this bad web site can already cause problems if
your computer is not protected from the latest viruses or spyware!!

So, beware! Do not click on the links!!