Tuesday 15 April 2008

Google | Reactivate Your AdWords Google Account

Same idea as the other Google phishing emails and sent to the same email address, but a slightly different message this time.

With this email the target URL is http://www.adwords.google.com.v6zd2.cn/select/Login - v6zd2.cn doesn't (yet) have any results in Google (it very soon will do!).

It's a slightly different tack so they are trying to target people they obviously think have Google accounts and are trying to panic them into signing on. What the point is, I'm not sure. OK, they can get name & address, but what then? Date of birth, credit card details etc are hidden. Maybe they then use your account to run up a load of advertising?

Here's the email content:

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Dear Google Adwords Customer, Your ads have stopped running because we were unable to process your billing information.
To activate your account and start running your ads, enter your billing information.

In order to activate your account and start running your ads, enter your billing information.
Pease sign into your account at http://adwords.google.com/select/login, and update
your billing information.

Once your account is reactivated and your billing information has been processed,
any your ads and campaigns can begin running immediately on Google.

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This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does
not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message.

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Google Adwords Team


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