One of our community members posted about this this morning, definitely something to keep an eye out for.
The email is attempting to get you to login to a fake Adwords interface by submitting your Google Accounts login.
It looks like they’ve done their homework, the email comes from “adwords-noreply@google.com” and tries to scare you into logging into the fake UI as “your advertisements have stopped running”.
The fake Adwords interface they’ve built is pretty slick looking as well.
Quite a few advertisers have received this attempt today, it might be worth a heads up to your staff and clients to watch out for it as well.
I had a client received one of these a few weeks ago. It had me fooled too, until I noticed the “to” field said “undisclosed-recipients” which seemed fishy…thanks for getting the word out.
05.10.11 at 2:47 pm
Very clever scam. Think of all the ads these scammers can run without paying a cent of their own money.
05.11.11 at 12:07 pm
I received some information about a $50 credit and logged in and claimed the funds. But it didn’t have a link, just instructions on were to login and were to navigate to get to the billing area if you are not familiar.
05.11.11 at 10:06 pm