Adsense PIN freaky email

Discussion in 'Payments' started by phantom, Dec 8, 2006.

  1. #1
    I just got an email from google adsense with the subject line "Your Google AdSense PIN"

    and in the body of the msg is some garbled up text almost looks like a publickey hash.....and nothing else.

    I looked at the headers and it is from google.


    Anyone know what this might be?


    I know that google sends pins to your address so wtf is this?
     
    phantom, Dec 8, 2006 IP
  2. AdsenseChic

    AdsenseChic Well-Known Member

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    From what e-mail address you got that from? Post it here. Sounds like a scam.
     
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  3. phantom

    phantom Well-Known Member

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    #3
    thats what I thought but.... its from
     
    phantom, Dec 8, 2006 IP
  4. AdsenseChic

    AdsenseChic Well-Known Member

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    When your earnings reach $50 you have to submit your PIN number to verify your address, maybe this what this e-mail is about or the text is so bad that cannot be read properly? The e-mail is valid, is in fact Google Adense Support.
     
    AdsenseChic, Dec 8, 2006 IP
  5. phantom

    phantom Well-Known Member

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    The email says nothing except for this garbled text......

    When I login to adsense it says the pin is on the way to my payment address on file. So I am expecting it will show up via snail mail.

    Now I get this unreadable email that looks a hash of some sort.
     
    phantom, Dec 8, 2006 IP
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    AdsenseChic Well-Known Member

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    Hmmmm...can you post it here? Maybe others can help you figure out this.
     
    AdsenseChic, Dec 8, 2006 IP
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    powwka Peon

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    Well in one of my computer classes we learned how to email people and make the "from:" email address be from anyone we wanted.
     
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  8. phantom

    phantom Well-Known Member

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    well I don't wanna do that since I dont know what it is.

    But I guess if no one else has got anything like this then something is wierd.
     
    phantom, Dec 8, 2006 IP
  9. phantom

    phantom Well-Known Member

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    powwka its not the from address that is the only one. .........in the header shows the actual computer names that handled the msg and all of them are from google...........maybe those are spoofed too I guess.


    Received: from zps78.corp.google.com
    by smtp-out.google.com



    it seems very legit.
     
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    powwka Peon

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    Ok then :)
    I don't think those can be spoofed, I thought you might not have looked that deep into who it came from.
     
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  11. phantom

    phantom Well-Known Member

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    So does anyone receive a PIN via email?
     
    phantom, Dec 8, 2006 IP
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    Do be careful, more and more people are getting emails supposedly from places like Paypal, Amazon, etc, but it sometimes turn out to from unrelated sources.
     
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  13. phantom

    phantom Well-Known Member

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    Yeah I'm trying to be very careful......if this was a spoof then what would the spoofer hope to gain with this garbled text?

    I'm wondering if this garbled text was actually an image that got messed up in transmission somehow.
     
    phantom, Dec 8, 2006 IP
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    do the easy thing
    reply to the email and ask what is this
     
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    That's very strange. Best to simply email Adsense and ask them.
     
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  16. phantom

    phantom Well-Known Member

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    well thats what I did so we'll see what happens.
     
    phantom, Dec 8, 2006 IP