As a heads up to anyone with an Adwords account, there's a phishing email circulating with the subject: "Google AdWords - Campaigns stopped running!".
HTML email. Looked pretty official, and no obvious grammatical errors.
The giveaways:
- sent to "undisclosed-recipients"
- link appears to point to subdomain of google-rh
- email headers indicated originating IP was from Poland
Text of email is below:
HTML email. Looked pretty official, and no obvious grammatical errors.
The giveaways:
- sent to "undisclosed-recipients"
- link appears to point to subdomain of google-rh
- email headers indicated originating IP was from Poland
Text of email is below:
Dear AdWords Advertiser,
Your campaigns seems to have stopped on Wednesday, 16 June 2010. Please login and check if everything is running without any problems. Also check if your keywords and phrases are linked directly to specific products or services.
lightbulb<http://services.google.com/images/adwords/bulb.gif> Click here to confirm that your campaigns are up and running 100% at this time. <http://adwords.google-rh.com/accounts/signin.html>
We'll often stop running your ads until we are able to make the necessary updates. As soon as we made and saved the changes, your ads are automatically resubmitted to us for review.But in this case some of our servers can not confirm if all ads are running 100% correctly, including yours.
Please note: If you do not verify the status of your Adwords account and notify us if your ads do not appear online we can not help you and your ads will stay offline for the next few days.
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