Adwords Phishing Email, Watch Out!
I just got this email in my inbox a couple days ago. On first glance it appears to be from Google (my pop3 doesn’t do html, so there is a screenshot of the webpage version of the email). Now look a bit closer:
(the two circled screens gave it away, with Google your email is your password, and secondly, on the Adwords website, the copyright is just 2008 Google, not 2008 Google Adwords)
This then leads to a second screen, Source-Adwords.com/xxx-xxx (I am not including the end so no one gets caught by this for any reason). This is the first thing you should look at for phishing the domain. Adwords would not use a cheap domain name, they would just use their Google domain. This is obviously a fake, busted. It also didn’t hurt that my phishing filter popped up and warned me of it as well….. Another reason why Firefox kicks butt.
This is a strange thing for me being the first Adwords Phising email I’ve got. Have you guys ever got anything like this before?
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Usually get Paypal emails like this, even though I’m not a member, but never adwords.
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I have seen a few ebay as well as paypal emails like this. It is actually pretty scary to think that people are not doing their homework or just do not know any better than to use any links in an email instead of directly logging in to check things of this type of nature. All in the same karma catches up to those unscrupulous peoples throughout the world
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Wow thanks for the update on adwords email havent got any from them will keep an eye out ~Nick~
Yep, I just got this one as well, well, it was similar. What I do is look at the url that comes up. On all of these, I then go to the site to see how convincing it is, but, I already know it is a fake.
Some of them look pretty real, and would be hard for many users who don’t check the url.
People are always looking for those few that will give up their info…this one is scary as they will be able to run up ads on your account….sending them to their own products.
A lot of spam emails are really spreading everyday thus we should be very extra careful. I always receive a Paypal scam email and I just ignore it.
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