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Posted by Ex_OWM on June 26, 2008, 7:41 am
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> Showed up in Inbox today:
>
> <quote>
> Dear Advertiser,
>
> We were unable to process your payment. Your ads will be suspended soon
> unless we can process your payment. To prevent your ads from being
> suspended, please update your payment information.
>
> Please sign in
> to your account at http://adwords.google.com/select/login, and update your
> payment information.
>
> We look forward to providing you with the most effective advertising
> available. Thank you for advertising with Google AdWords.
> ------------------------------------------------------- The Google AdWords
> Team --
> </quote>
>
> The url actually goes to http://www.adwords.google.com./
>
> That url with the dot at the end loads a page that looks like AdWords, but
> Opera protests the server's certificate doesn't match its hostname. Some
> interesting headers:
>
> Subject:
> Your ads are not running.
> From:
> Return-path:
> X-Mailer:
> Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616
>
> Oh, and BTW I have never used AdWords.
I've got it several times over last few weeks and as I, like you, have never
used adwords, it was easy enough to identify as a scam.
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