BEWARE THIS EMAIL: "Google AdWords Alert"

Just a heads up to everyone about a dodgy email I received. It was titled "Google AdWords Alert" and was supposedly from

The body of the email began:

It goes on to say click here to login etc, and the link looks genuine but actually goes to a link ending .ru

I haven't clicked it of course, but it's clearly dodgy. I've now received the same message almost ten times in the past week. It looks quite convincing compared to most spam-type emails and I might have fallen for it if I actually used Google AdWords with the email address to which they sent this email! So I thought I would warn people in case anyone else gets it.

 

Thanks for the warning, gingerbreadweb

Haven't received it yet. Will be careful...

 

You're welcome

By the way, I looked at the email headers and it was actually sent from

 

People shoud take more attention about e-mail adress the massage was sent from. It would be rather very low possible to get false e-mail from the real

 

just wondering , how much spams does this singel email ID gets in a minute or so.

 

I have heard that 90% of total world emails are spam!

 

Thanks very much, read something else about this recently.

Almost fell for a paypal one a few years ago, was my birthday so my mind was not on things as normal, early morning, lucky the caffiene kicked in and i thought wtf, lol

 

Thanks Buddy For Informing ... I Guess We Should Not Leak Out Our Business E-Mail ID , I mean The ID Which we Use for Google and Other Services ... Reduces SPAM Mails

 

I suppose they are randomly sent to email addresses that are likely to exist.
For eg: is very likely to exist, I don't need to send him an email or do a dummy signup to check it that username is available.

 

I had one like that too, cheers for the heads up!!

Rep +

 

Stupid russian carders, cann't get a .com or .net domain, think, that people are so stupid

 

Thanks for the heads up.