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I received an email claiming my AdSense account has been cancelled. I never opened an AdSense account to begin with.
by gragas 10y ago
I received an email claiming my AdSense account has been cancelled. I never opened an AdSense account to begin with.
- Turing_Machine 10y agoPossibly a variant on the old "You need to update your Wells Fargo (or wherever) account information" scam. They blast it out to a zillion people at random, many of whom don't even have accounts at Wells Fargo. That doesn't matter -- many of them do. And of those who do, some will be naive enough to follow the link and hand over their credentials.
- elliotec 10y agoProbably a lot of people will follow that link. Yikes
- relix 10y agoAccounts are actually cancelled so no, that's not it.
- Turing_Machine 10y agoIt's entirely possible that a scammer would exploit a real large-scale cancellation by sending zillions of fake cancellation messages. In fact, that would make the scam work better. If the intended victim a) has an AdSense account and b) has heard of the (real) cancellations, he's probably going to be much more likely to click on the fake cancellation message.
- relix 10y agoGood point, nicely thought out.
- s_kilk 10y agoSame, I don't recall ever using AdSense.