Google Scam

April 2nd, 2008

Today I received an email from “Google Adwords” … mail which looks pretty original, but Thunderbird thinked it was spam.
I opened it, I looked through it, everything looked 100% ok. Even the link.

When I had a second look, the link was like adwords.google.com.sumh94.cn (in the href, because the text was just adwords.google.com).
In the header it was a disaster.
Unfortunately the amateurs sent it with Outlook, and even if it had the correct email address, the return-path was to a yahoo account.

That means from now on I have to check the headers of every email I receive, and remember what servers are used usually for the emails from different services.

Why can’t we all just … get along ?

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)