Yet another Phishing campaign is out and about and looking to steal your Google Adword’s user-name and password.
So far the emails we’ve reviewed are pretty straightforward:
Subject: Ads have stopped running
From: ”Google AdWords”<adwords-noreply@google.com>
But the “To:” field has generally been empty, which is a pretty big clue that the email is a fraud.
The sending address is of course spoofed. The email doesn’t come from Google but instead an compromised overseas mail server in this case.
An actual email is displayed below:
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Notice that the email warns that “Some of the ads have stopped running today (Monday, 12 April 2010)” and that inserting the correct date not only makes the email slightly more persuasive, but also helps the campaign evade simplistic spam filters that hash email content, looking for exact matches.
The actual Phishing trick to the email is that the hyper-linked phrase “Click here to get your ads back up” does not link to a valid Google server, but instead to one of many similar sounding variations of the domain. The actual email above links to:
http://adwords.google-rs.com/ads/signin.html
But keep in mind that we’ve seen many variations on the same theme.
Naturally, visiting the spammers Phishing server and providing the username and password to your actual Google Adwords account will not end well.
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