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Sprinkles
01-04-2008, 06:52 AM
This morning i received this email
Is it real or a fake?
If its real, what are they talking about. I DONT have an adword account to pay. Help poor Sprinky :confused:
where the asterisks are is where i have blanked out some private information, and emails/URL's

AdWords prepayment
From: *************
01 April 2008 01:37:21
To:***********

This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does
not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message. If you
have any questions, please feel free to email us through the AdWords
Help Centre at ********.

Hello,

Thank you for selecting bank transfer prepayment as your AdWords
billing method. However, we have not yet received your bank transfer
funding. This may be because it is still being processed by your bank
or because you still need to initiate the transfer on your end.

If you have not already done so, please initiate a bank transfer with
your financial institution, making sure to generate and provide a
reference number with your payment. You can generate this number on the
My Account tab of your AdWords account. This number is the only way
that we can associate your payment with your account. If you transfer
money to us without including the reference number, your payment may be
delayed or lost.

Here are a few important notes to remember about bank transfers:

- You must include the entire reference number to process a payment. If
you do not include the entire reference number your payment will be
delayed. If your bank transfer form does not have a field for a
reference number, please enter the number in front of or instead of
your name.

- You must generate a new reference number for each payment that you make.

- You must initiate the transfer process with the bank; Google cannot
do this for you.

- Google has partnered with a trusted third party to process bank
transfers, so you may not see Google listed as the name of the bank
account to which you are requested to send your money.

- Your bank may charge you a processing fee in addition to the amount
that you send to Google. Google does not reimburse advertisers for
bank-imposed processing fees. If your bank imposes a fee or is unable
to complete the transaction, another local bank may be able to provide
more suitable options.

- While 5 to 10 business days is a typical time-period for receiving a
bank transfer, it can take up to 30 business days before Google
receives your transfer. The timing of a given transfer depends on your
local bank processes. Even banks within the same country may have
different procedures for initiating a bank transfer payment.

For help with paying by bank transfer, please see our step-by-step
instructions at ********
We look forward to providing you with the most effective advertising available.

Yours sincerely,
The Google AdWords Team

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Your AdWords account number: *********
Google Ireland Ltd.
Gordon House, Barrow Street
Dublin 4, Ireland

Registered in Dublin, Ireland | Registration Number: 368047

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You may opt out of Billing emails associated with *********
by visiting
*******
This link expires 7 days after we send this email to you.

Peter
01-04-2008, 07:16 AM
Yes it's a scam. Next? ;) If it doesn't address you by name it's 98% sure it's a scam. If it does address you by name, it's 88% sure it's a scam! :D

Sprinkles
01-04-2008, 07:20 AM
ok, i better notify google then as they are using the same building address as them :mad:

thanks :)

Funkyhand
01-04-2008, 07:31 AM
I pay for my google adwords by bank transfer and it always says I've paid Google on my bank statement..that's def a scam! They are getting pretty good these days but still not good enough!!!
Anice xx :):)

Sprinkles
01-04-2008, 07:34 AM
now i feel like a numpty :nopity:
better that i guess, then getting sucked in by these evil scammers

Funkyhand
01-04-2008, 07:39 AM
Don't feel like a numpty..you didn't send them any money and you asked about a bit to make sure. You are not a numpty! :D:D
Anice xx :):)

0103media
01-04-2008, 09:29 AM
Yep loads of them going around..

For all account online ignore ALL emails and login directly..

Paypal,google,ebay etc.. It will display ANY info you need to add update or change on the homepage of your account..


Best way to stop this is to use another email account for things like google.. One that doesn't relate to your site ...

I have about 30-40 email account and get scam email all day every day but very few on my email account conectted to paypal or google etc..

Hope that helps..

janetdc
01-04-2008, 04:34 PM
Scam scam scam scam.......:horse: