This is the story of Russell, whose AdWords campaigns fell prey to a phishing scam.
Russell advertises one of his websites (WorldLabel.com) using AdWords, Google"s program that will launch advertisements on search results and third-party websites using AdSense. Russell is not a large-scale advertiser, so he only had a single campaign has six campaigns set up, he tells me.
Seemingly out of the blue, Russell one day noticed how a lot of odd, likely spammy campaigns had been set up in his account though. Take a look at the screenshot:
The keywords targeted for this campaign are all variations on "loans", "fast cash" and so on. The maximum cost per click was set to $6.25.
Now apparently, Russell suggests that Google m ...
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