This is one of our short posts to make you aware of greetings messages such as "Happy New Year", "Merry Christmas", and so on which contains links to malicious websites.
Well, there are lots of malicious websites asking people to share the greetings. So, if you find any other malicious website, you can report to us using the comment section below.

Why such Happy New Year, Merry Christmas Greeting Websites are scams?
Greeting messages such as "Happy New Year", "Merry Christmas" and so on asking to share with website links are mostly malicious websites. Since when you visit these websites, a malicious programming script may be executed that searches for access credentials. That may gain access to your social media accounts and will send a message to your all social media contacts on your behalf with the same or similar kinds of malicious website links.
Sometimes, these types of messages are sent only to drive traffic to these websites. But, these types of websites also ask to submit your personal information, which may be sold to third parties to make money.
You should never provide your credit card or other financial details to these kinds of websites since that can be used for scamming purposes.
These kinds of websites also may contain some viruses which may hack personal information from your device or install unwanted apps on your device while you visit these websites. So, it's always better not to visit any websites as we have mentioned above.
Finally,
Now you must be clear why the above-mentioned websites are scams. So, if you want to say something about it, then please feel free to leave your comment below. You can also comment below to report about any kinds of scams. After all, we are here to spread awareness about the scams. So, let’s do it together. Let’s save innocent people from scams.
You can find the various kinds of scams listed within our “Scams” category by clicking >HERE< or you can navigate our website through our home page to find out the several interesting and knowledgeable articles under different categories by clicking >HERE<.
If you want to share this post with your friends and families through your social media accounts to make them aware of these kinds of greeting messages with malicious website links, then please feel free to do so.
Actually, we recommend you to share this post with your friends and families through your social media accounts because it will help to spread the awareness about scams. More we share about unprofessional or scam sites with our friends and families, more they will be aware of scams which will ultimately make difficult for a scammer to scam innocent people. So, it’s better you share this post with your friends and families if you want to spread awareness against scams.
FYI: This post was first published on 1 January 2020 and updated at 8 April 2025.
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