Considering that Google Adwords is the biggest pay per click advertising platform in the world, it is surprising that there aren't more spam emails being sent out trying to get unsuspecting advertisers to click on phishing websites to get login details of advertisers.
We've recently received several of these Google Adwords phishing emails so felt it was our duty to make more people aware of them so that they can be avoided. Here are just a couple the latest one that we've received.
PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS IF YOU RECEIVE THEM!
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hello dear customer,
You have a new alert from AdWords Alerts
Please use the link below to login:
http://www.adlwevordsx.com/Selects/Login/static/index.html?ref=77493138827
Advertise and Grow your business with Adwords
Yours truly ,
Google AdWords Team ©2009
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Here is another email we received asking us to enter our Google Adwords details to another spam/phishing website.
We hope that buy publishing these spam emails that people don't fall into the trap of clicking the link and falling foul of the spammers. We feel that unfortunately some people must click at some point otherwise the spammers wouldn't be so persistent. If you know of anyone who advertises on Google Adwords, why not tell them about these emails as well?
We've read a variety of stats on the open rates of spam emails ranging from 0.0001% through to up to 23%. Given the cost of sending an email is virtually zero, whether open rates are as low as 0.0001% or not it still makes it a worthwhile activity for the spammers to make money, albeit illegally.
Don't fall into the trap!
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