Adword account hacked &^)%@&(%^

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Jardini

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Woke up this morning, logged into my MCC, saw one of the account that has no active campaign with "xxxx amount spent yesterday"

I was like, wtf is going on, after looking at it, I realized someone hacked into my account, uploaded a campaign and ran about 3k worth of clicks on it.

I am going to out this fucker's lander (Mods, if you think this is inappropriate, take it down)

http://world-airlines.biz (It was working this morning and now it is not even loading)

whois the domain, came up with a phone#, googled the phone#, it is tied to a shitloads of scams.

What I have realized is that, your adwords account password is linked to your gmail password. I have probably checked my email at my friends' pc that has spyware or key loggers on it. (This is the only explanation I can come up with, b/c I got 3 adwords accounts under my MCC, only the one linked to an active email account was hacked)

if you use gmail, don't use the same email account for adwords, separate them.

FML
fuck...
 


Give Google a call.. explain the situation and have them comp/refund you for unauthorized expenses.
 
Ya, they will. One of my buddies had the same thing happen to him for about 15K. Google reversed the charges right away w/ little hassle.
 
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