As almost everybody knows there’s been some unscrupulous use of Chinese domains (.cn) to try to scam AdWords users and we’ve reported on this previously. I know that numerous people have been caught out ! Yesterday with, Teri’s help I encountered my first Russian phishing attack, then lo and behold one pops into my inbox this morning [...]
Please be aware that I’m still regularly hearing reports of people who have received AdWords ‘phishing’ emails. These appear to be genuine communications from Google asking you to renew your AdWords account or update your AdWords payment details, but are in fact scams cleverly designed to steal your credit card details. You can identify the [...]
A client fortunately queried this email with me and my trusty McAfee virus protection software flagged it as ‘phishing’. It is a scam email cloaked as a Google AdWords payment alert trying to steal your credit card details. The email link to update your payment details actually goes to a Chinese site and not Google: http://adwords.google.com.r4oik.cn/select/Login/ [...]