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Phishing Scam E-mails

The email claiming to be from postcards.org may be a phishing scam. Phishing e-mails are e-mails from scam artists who use official looking webpages designed to trick you into believing they are from a corporate website that you have an account with. Once you are at the site, they will ask you to provide or verify personal information such as bank account information, credit card information, social security information and password information. If you get such an e-mail, you should delete it and do not provide any of the requested information. However, if you are not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact postcards.org directly and explain the e-mail you received. If you give out any personal information, contact postcards.org immediately and depending on what information you gave out, it may be wise to take measures to protect against identity theft (e.g. contact credit agencies, close accounts, cleanse computer). Many e-mail solicitations that appear to be phishing e-mails are set forth throughout this website and below:

Postcards.org

To:
Subject:	You have received a postcard from a family member!
From:	"postcards.com" <postcards@postcards.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:55:12 -0500 (EST)

You have received a postcard from a family member!

You can pick up your postcard at the following web address:

http://www.postcards.org/postcards/

If you can‘t click on the web address above, you can also
visit 1001 Postcards at http://www.postcards.org/postcards/
and enter your pickup code, which is: a91-valets-cloud-mad

(Your postcard will be available for 60 days.)

Oh -- and if you‘d like to reply with a postcard,
you can do so by visiting this web address:
http://www.secure.postcard.go.ro/
(Or you can simply click the "reply to this postcard"
button beneath your postcard!)