If you recently got an email that your Google Adsense account has been disabled, its a phishing email targeted at Google AdWords advertisers, and these are messages aimed at users of Google AdSense too. Thus, the following mail with subject “Google Adsense Account Disabled” which allegedly reports that your Google AdSense account is disabled by the Google AdSense team. A Reference is made to a help page from AdSense. In the annex an HTML file that points to a fake Google AdSense page.

<–phishing–>

Hello,

While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.

Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information by visiting https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

<–phishing–>

How do you find-out?
If the message supposedly comes from “adsense-adclicks-noreply@google.com” with the message that your Google AdSense account is disabled. There is no addressee entered, or is there an HTML file attached. Once the source of the HTML file will see here is a tag, set with a URL to a website 110mb.com free hosting service. This tag ensures that you will be automatically redirected to this URL when you open the attachment file in HTML. Visiting this URL provides a phishing site- BEWARE.

If you have received such message, please get in touch with Google Support using this URL: http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html and report the issue ASAP!!!

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