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Email Scam

bdsm-greetings.com's first priority is always you, our customer, which involves providing you with information on how to protect yourself from the recent eCard email scam impacting our industry. As you may have heard, fraudulent emails are currently being sent that portray themselves as messages from legitimate companies but contain malicious links. Vulnerable computers may be compromised when recipients click on these links. The good news is that there are quick and easy ways to protect yourself from these fraudulent emails. First, you can choose not to click on any links within an email if you have any suspicion that the eCard email you received is fake. Instead, users can always go directly to the official website URL of the stated eCard provider (e.g., www.bdsm-greetings.com) to safely pick up and view the eCard sent to them. This requires no clicking on suspicious email links. In addition, we have made some significant changes to our eCard notification email and pickup practices, all in the spirit of making legitimate eCards easy to detect and view. Please read below for more information on our recent changes.

What's new?

bdsm-greetigns.com has changed the format of all eCard notification emails sent to eCard recipients. Now legitimate eCard notification emails from us will have all of the following
  1. The email message will include the name and email address of the sender. Make sure you recognize the individual in the email message before clicking on any links.
  2. We have made it easier to find the eCard pickup area on our site, so you can quickly and safely view your greeting without clicking on any email links. On bdsm-greetings.com, it is now located on the top tool bar of every page.
  3. We have created this informational portal to help you navigate through your issues and questions related to email protection.


More about the recent phishing attack

A wide variety of websites and brands have been affected. While the subject line of the malicious eCard email tends to be generic, such as "You've received an eCard from a class-mate!" or "You've received a postcard from a family member," more recent examples include brand-specific messaging such as "Worshipper sent you a postcard from bdsm-greetings.com." Also, the pickup link within a malicious eCard email is most likely always an IP address, such as 127.0.0.1, which is much different than the typically used pickup link from a legitimate eCard sender that starts off with the host name (e.g., "www.bdsm-greetings.com) and not a series of numbers.  To see if there is an IP address associated with the link, hover over it with your cursor. If you see a URL when hovering over the link that has a series of numbers, such as htt://89.878.999.12, it is not a legitimate link and you should not click on it.

What people should do when they receive an eCard email claiming to be from bdsm-greetings.com:

  • First and foremost, if there is any suspicion that you have received a fraudulent eCard email, do not click on any link.
If you have any doubt who the email is from, manually type in www.bdsm-greetings.com after the http:\\ found in your Internet browser.
  • Then find the eCard pickup link located on the top banner of every page  to safely view your eCard.
Some additional recommendations to further protect you:
  • Make sure to always use the latest version of your Internet browser, as they will check for potentially fraudulent website when browsing the web.
  Please continue to be mindful of the above characteristics of our eCard emails versus the malicious emails

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