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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

 

Google Adwords Accounts Hijacked

Thanks to Josh of Web1Marketing for alerting us that folks have been hijacking Adwords accounts getting in probably through the use of weak passwords. Josh has some great tips in a blog entry on how to product your accounts.

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My account was hijacked and I suspect after speaking with Google this problems may be fairly large. Short 3 letter new Campaigns were created that targeted keywords ring tones, car loans. The text ads which were nonsense used text like aaaaaaaaa or cccccccccca linked to throw-away domains. I notified Google of the hacking and disabled the campaigns.
However several thousand dollars had been “spent.”
It's impossible to get voice contact with a billing person at Google Adwords. There is confusion about "credit" and write off.
With any normal store or online retailer a fraudulent billing issue
gets top priority and a credit is issued immedaitly. This makes me think this is a VERY large problem at Google?
 
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