Phishing E-Mail Spoofing an AdSense Ban

Heads Up: Received One Today

[toldan]

Senders e-mail appeared to be sent from "[e-mail]" . I was not notified that I was banned from Google. Then I went to login to my account and everything was fine. Then, I went back to my e-mail and clicked to see header information - some idiot used proxy (from Russian Federation) to send me banned e-mail.

What programs do these spammers use to appear as legitimate e-mail was sent from Google? How do they do that?

[toldan]

Correction: "I was notified", not "I was not notified".

The point of the post: Beware! These spammers use programs and send emails that appear (aka: look) as legitimate Google senders, but they are not!

[badongo]

I sure hope you did not login to google using the link they provided in the email.

if so , they now have your AS user/pass

I would change that right away if I was you

[ezgo]

Ya, a normal phish fraud. I normal hear about paypal, ebay or your bank account. Adsense account, that is the first time I ever heard. Perhaps someone in this forum saw your post and knew you are a member of Adsense

[fredw]

For some reason, phishing activity has seemingly increased today. I can't remember the last time I got one, but today I got two in the same day, one saying it was from eBay and one saying it was from PayPal.

[CaWebSites]

This is the most common phishing scam. It is so easy to send email which appears to be from anyone you want. You just configure your Outlook account to display any return address you want. If you clicked on a link and logged into your adsense account, you better go back and change your password right away. Sticky me and I can give you more on phishing, as I work in the enforcement field and have written a paper on it.

[kartiksh]

Thanks for Heads Up. On internet for finacial institutes and paypal website, its a common thing but for adsense i came to know today only.

[brianng]

Yeh it would be hard to find out somebody's email for the Adsense account. Not like Paypal

[humblebeginnings]

Even if they don't succeed in hacking your Adsense account, they scare the living daylights out of you!
(That's British for being scared th*tl*ss;-)

[Sobriquet]

Phishing on adsense too... this is getting too much i guess

but.....

i wonder why wud anyone want to enter some ones account in adsense?

there wud be NO finacial gain at all. what wud someone achieve?

[LifeinAsia]

there wud be NO finacial gain at all. what wud someone achieve?

With a person's logon, they can easily change payee information, including name and address. I don't know if Google sends and e-mail notification when someone changes their account information- anyone know?

This is certainly more delayed gratification than bank or PayPal phishing, since changes to payment information must be completed by the 15th. So it would give the theftee a good 2 weeks to notice something was wrong and do something before checks went out.

[Crickey]

I don't know if Google sends and e-mail notification when someone changes their account information- anyone know

if they didn't, they wil now.