User of Google AdWords? Beware of phishing!

May 28, 2008 - 6:02am | Fraud | News |
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[img_assist|nid=7747|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=67|height=100]Bigmouthmedia, the digital marketing agency, has revealed that the users of Google AdWords are the potent ional victims of online fraudsters whose aim is to steal internet traffic and get access to the banking details of businesses and individuals.

During the last 6 months the number of "phishing" e-mails targeted to attract the customers and to make them reveal their AdWords account login details has increased greatly. Statistics has described tht unpleasant situation in figures and has revealed a shocking picture of the present. So, according to the revealed data the traffic has increased by 240 percent on the monthly average for 2007.

Most of people know about phishers and their activity, and know the ways to avoid their malicious action. However, they still fall for the bait of the fraudsters. Today a new direction of phishing, known as Google Phishing, grows greatly. Being targeted at personal and financial details of the victims to redirect their AdWords traffic to the site of perpetrators, Google Phishing uses search engines to drive traffic to illegitimate sites.




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