Yesterday, I received an email asking me to verify my Google adwords information as my payment failed to process. I found it very strange and I thought that Google database is going banana as I have NO Google adwords account .The email was as follows:

Dear Google Adwords Customer,

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.

——————————————————————————-
This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does
not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message.
——————————————————————————-
Thank you for choosing Google Adwords

So I followed the link to the home page of the so called My Google Adwords. The link directed me to a different URL: http://adwords.google.com.edr3j.cn/select/Login which has nothing to do with Google Adwords URL.

So I started asking around in forums, family and friends and what I found was really worrying hundreds of internet user received these emails also. The facts I discovered was shocking , hackers are going around sending emails to several email addresses hoping that some of them are already Google adwords account holders and trick them using Google name (which Google has no idea about) into giving them their credit card number .

The email they send is really convincing for readers because of http://adwords.google.com/select/login link provided at the end of the email which made me thinking what if I really had a Google adwords account and I didn’t notice the browser URL before going forward.

My personal advice is when you receive an email from anyone (even from Google itself) don’t take it for granted specially when there is money at stake .Please when you follow any link provided in any email received, make sure that the link you followed is exactly the same as the one typed in your browser.

Please forward this post to anyone who you think has a Google adwords account and spread the word around.