fake phishing email?

adwords phishing google

[doctor gerlis]

I think I have just been caught into giving my login details in response to a phishing email purporting to come from Google. I have now changed my login details, but I wanted to warn others. We had a standard G notification that an ad had been disapproved with a link to log in. No ad is diapproved and I have informed google. Question is, they cannot get my credit card details since these are encrypted- what other harm could they have done - changed my ads? Any one have any bad experiences?

[engine]

Make sure you forward the full headers of the phishing e-mail to G. I'm sure they'd be interested.

[doctor gerlis]

I have done this- the phishing was sophisticated-having logged in I was taken to a page which was effectively my summary page.

[chinara]

change your password asap

[doctor gerlis]

So has no-one else had this email? Perhaps it is one of my competitors.

[carguy84]

Get the headers form the email and see what mail server it was sent from, and work backwards from there. Expect to get dead ended quickly though as I bet the server is outside this country. If not, you're in real luck.

[smallcompany]

Theoretically it could be your competitor although unlikely, but rather someone who would use your account for "free" advertising, until revealed. Not sure about other reason why would one do something like that.

Thanks very much for posting it here.

[doctor gerlis]

Thanks guys-it seems odd that this has not been reported by anyone else. Let's wait and see what happens or if anyone else reports it.