Beware: Google AdWords Phishing Scam

November 24th, 2009 by Kim Clinkunbroomer Leave a reply »

New email received 11/24/2009. Appears to be from Google AdWords.  The email claims that irregular activity was detected on the account and immediate attention was necessary.

Phishing Scam
Phishing Scam

The link takes visitors to a fake, yet convincing, sign in page asking the member to log in.  This is the point where you hand over your log in details to the scammer.

Fake Google AdWords Login Page
Fake Google AdWords Login Page

To Report phishing scams to Google visit this form or forward the email to phishing@google.com

Posted by: Kim Clinkunbroomer ‘Clink’, G.A.P.

14 comments

  1. RBall says:

    “Sincerley”

    Priceless.

  2. MrsC says:

    Yes, that was a nice touch :)

  3. Vijay Swain says:

    Hi…Can you anybody help me out cause I am facing some errors from Google Adwords. Acutually we have a account of Foreign exchange and we are using one of the keyword is “forex trading” & am sure, no any same keyword is duplicate in the entire Account. But my ad isn’t appear & i got a message from google adwords :

    This particular search term is already associated with an ad from one of your other campaigns or ad groups. Only one ad per advertiser may appear on a given page per search term. When two or more of your ads are eligible for a single search term, we show the one with the highest ranking at the moment.

    And keyword is on Broad Match.

  4. MrsC says:

    Vijay,

    Hi thanks for visiting.

    I would double check your keywords across each campaign/adgroup. Also, if you have recently paused one of the “multiple keywords” it may take a little time for the UI to report that.

    Kim

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