Tis the season?
I don’t know about you, but I have been receiving more AdWords phishing scam emails then ever.
Today’s email was another clever attempt at tricking someone to share their login details. The subject “Your AdWords Ads have stopped running!” is followed by a message stating:
“Your ads have stopped running today (Monday, 7 December 2009). We had encountered a number of problems with some of our servers that crashed this morning and at this time we cannot check to see what customer accounts are now running 100%.”
Full email below:
AdWords Phishing Email – Your ads have stopped running today (Monday, 7 December 2009). We had encountered a number of problems with some of our servers that crashed this morning and at this time we cannot check to see what customer accounts are now running 100%.
People are taken to a fake login page where they can potentially give away their login details and access to their AdWords accounts.
The phishing scams I have been receiving are addressed to :undisclosed recipients and do not reference any account information such as login or a customer identification number. Beware of any emails that don’t address you personally.
For those of you managing accounts for clients you may want to give them a heads up to beware and scrutinize emails that appear to be from Google.
To Report phishing scams to Google visit this form or forward the email to phishing@google.com
Posted by: Kim Clinkunbroomer GAP, AdWords Top Contributor.
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