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New Email Phishing Scam - Creating Google Ad Click Fraud

Wow, this is a first for me.  We have all received those bogus emails trying to pass themselves off as from EBay, PayPal, or some large bank, with what looks like a link to the legit site, but is really a false site trying to get your account information.  But I just got an email with a new phishing scam.  Instead of sending you to a phony site, they just include a link needed to trigger a click to one of their Google Ads.  Hmm, that is pretty ingenious, and will probably make someone some serious cash before Google can catch up to this scam.

Published Friday, March 03, 2006 11:15 PM by donxml
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I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.
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