Adwords phishing email--beware

[dertyfern]

Just received an email that looks EXACTLY like one that Adwords sends out when there's a problem with a credit card charge.

It's actually a phishing email that's pointing to

[a site on a .cn domain]

that, again, is a darn good replica of the actual adwords login page.

email headers show that the email came from Return-Path: [a Yahoo email address]

Just a note of caution

[edited by: buckworks at 12:39 pm (utc) on April 30, 2008]
[edit reason] No URLs please. [/edit]

[La_Valette]

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System: The following 2 messages were spliced on to this thread from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adwords/3638296.htm [webmasterworld.com] by jatar_k - 8:58 am on April 30, 2008 <small>(est -4)</small>

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I got the email below today in my inbox. It was sent to the webmaster address at one of my domains. It's fake. When you mouse over the http:// link, what you actually see in the link display box is:

[adwords.google.com.example.cn...]

Note the example.cn domain. If someone from Google is seeing this, it seems to me that Google should check these guys out and take appropriate legal action.

[edited by: jatar_k at 1:00 pm (utc) on April 30, 2008]
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[Receptional Andy]

This was actually covered a few weeks back:

Heads up: Adwords spam "please update your billing info" [webmasterworld.com]. Still, no harm in reminding people!