Comments on: Beware of Google Adwords Phishing Scheme

By: Lawyer Frank

Lawyer Frank — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:19:11 +0000

what do they think they are going to do with an Adwords account? Wouldn’t it be obvious to Google if somebody has run Adwords and all of a sudden starts trying to put in strange sites?

By: Alberto

Alberto — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:22:00 +0000

Strange. I am having several of these emails today but to the wrong email not on my Adwords account.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:36:34 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. Also, I’m not sure but I think Google tracks their adwords using IP Adresses. So if you have a complaint Google should be able to check and see if the IP matches or if its to some computer in Iraq or something.

By: Jehzeel Laurente

Jehzeel Laurente — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:05:10 +0000

ohh.. I also received e-mails similar to those. We should be very keen and observe, specially the permalink used in the e-mail just like what you said.. :D yay!

Those phishers are really clever. But we should be more clever to avoid possible e-mail scams. :)

By: Miranda V

Miranda V — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:53:02 +0000

you make a good point -

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:16:02 +0000

@Matt - Google does keep elaborate IP tracking, which is why I couldn’t understand the point of somebody trying to get your Adwords login information. However, I found this post from lat March at Seroundtable…

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016647.html

Apparently, they are phishing for credit card details and not just your Adwords account login information.

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By: Daniel White

Daniel White — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:59:04 +0000

An excellent catch there. I think I did receive one of these in my Gmail inbox the other day. I hovered over the URL, and it pointed to a g00gle.ru site. haha

By: Debt management plans

Debt management plans — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:36:32 +0000

It is true that phishing websites have gone to extreme cases. One of my close friend is a victim of this scammers. He click the link from his outlook express email account to his paypal. Luckily, he able to file a claim and get back his money. Things would have been worse if someone got hold of our bank account login details. During this economic downturn, debts and financial crisis pushing many people to involve in unhealthy activities like this. The best way to survive is to protect our accounts and have solid anti-virus, anti-phishing, anti-spyware, etc installed in all our computers and handhelds.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:38:21 +0000

I get a lot of these types of emails, and sad to say, I have clicked on plenty of them. Once at the page, luckily it becomes pretty obvious what’s what.