Comments on: Google Adwords Phishing Alert

By: Geoff Dodd

Geoff Dodd — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:18:42 +0000

Thank you Mike. It is a nearly perfect con except for the .cn domain extension. I love the ones that go to ‘undisclosed recipients’ in the plural!
Geoff D.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:27:07 +0000

@CJ

It was very convincing wasn’t it. I too was taken in by the email and before I examined it carefully, I thought, “darn, my credit card must be expiring”.

Which was the reason that I published it. It is obviously will have sucked a fair number of people in.

Mike

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:33:57 +0000

Glad to see that I’m not the only one getting a bunch of these each day, it was very nearly the first phishing scheme I fell for, I even emailed by Google rep asking why my account would be having a problem before I noticed the actual destination URL was a “.cn” site.

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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:22:51 +0000

[...] Blumenthals received the same e-mail. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:33:20 +0000

@Stever- thanks for noticing the 404. I had to run out the door and didn’t get the 2nd shot up. It is now

@Marti[J]n – I had sent an email to my lone google contact but your url is better. Thanks. As of 10:42 pm EDT it is still up.

Mike

By: martijn

martijn — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:56:42 +0000

make sure you submit and notify this one. it might be new:
http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/request.py?ctx=cuffhelp&contact_type=phishing&hlrm=en_US

By: Stever

Stever — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:41:24 +0000

Thanks for that Mike, warning some of my clients now.

BTW, the second screenshot link is a 404.