180.000 daily limit!

[dracula]

[QUOTE=subhzash;368940]Use the adwords editor tool. login to your google adwords account and go to tools there you can find the adwords editor tool just download and install in your system. In that tool you can find the option to check recent changes.

I hope there you can locate which site people used your adwords campaign




thank you Subhzash

I could find the link www.renizanz.com/ringtones-cube/?dat=MzM2&OVKEY={keyword}, of course the link does not work any longer and when I put in renizans.com there is no index page any longer only a parent directory and a tmp/ directory.

When I look under whois i get:

Creation date / registration date 01april 08

Phred Jackson
3311 Estudillo St.
Martinez CA 94553


it looks like this has only been registered the domain for this atempt. He succeed to make 318 clicks at a cost of $8,468.07. What a criminal mind.

[kgun]

thank you guys,
So be aware friends this could happen to you! Also I had a pretty strong password.

This story shocks me.

1. I don't have an AdWords account, but an AdSense account. There I get: Last login: x days ago. So I have to remember my last login.
2. From one of my hosts I get: Last login from: IP.
3. You should set a limit and a daily maximum using a strong password and a pin or card with codes lik you use here for logging into bank accounts. You should use Opera when you log in. When you set this limit, the amount should be reported back to you in number and text format before you confirm the limit.
4. You should get an email warning if anything important happens to your account. That warning could be sent to another email account. Changing this setting should not be possible from your account without additional information, like confirming one or more questions that should be very difficult to guess.

[janeth]

Thats some scary stuff. I hope they catch the guy and put him under the jail.

[subhzash]

[QUOTE=dracula;368955]

Use the adwords editor tool. login to your google adwords account and go to tools there you can find the adwords editor tool just download and install in your system. In that tool you can find the option to check recent changes.

I hope there you can locate which site people used your adwords campaign




thank you Subhzash

I could find the link www.renizanz.com/ringtones-cube/?dat=MzM2&OVKEY={keyword}, of course the link does not work any longer and when I put in renizans.com there is no index page any longer only a parent directory and a tmp/ directory.

When I look under whois i get:

Creation date / registration date 01april 08

Phred Jackson
3311 Estudillo St.
Martinez CA 94553


it looks like this has only been registered the domain for this atempt. He succeed to make 318 clicks at a cost of $8,468.07. What a criminal mind.

Here http://whois.domaintools.com/renizanz.com shows address and phone number. Register the case nearest police station. And before registering collect all the details about the click and destination URLs. Make one soft copy as well as print out

Take action against that guy


Regards
Subhzash
subhzash@gmail.com

[janeth]

Make sure it's the right guy first.

[dragonfeet]

Hi, dracula,
I'm from Malaysia. I'm a new internet marketer.
This case happen to me also.
I found that from 30 March, someone hacked into my adwords account, set up a campaign with daily budget of 8000, and until yesterday, it already cost up to 15K in 4 days time!!!!!
I have reported to google, but until now almost 1.5 day, still not yet received response from google.
There is few thousands already charged to my credit card. I cancel the card already and file a disputed form to my bank to claim back that money.
Hope google can cancel all the unauthorised fees.
It's really really really terrible.....
I feel very depressed....because I haven't make any money, but already facing a huge lose.....

[SteveGerencser]

In most cases Google will charge your account one time per month.. Before that happens remove your payment information from the Google account so that they can't charge you until the discuss options with you..

We pay with a credit card that is only used to pay for Google Adwords and nothing else.. It would be simple for us to cancel that card to keep it from being charged..

What Google "should" do and what they actually do may be two different things.. But it would be very hard for them to declared these clicks as anything but fraud and either refund you or not charge you to begin with..

And finally, use better passwords and make sure that your computers are secure..

[dracula]

Just to let you know how efficient Google handled my case, I must say very customer friendly.
The say they will never invoice me for that amout, and I look now forward that they reopen my account after I changed the password.

The Hacker went into the system using my gmail account. How he came over my password, no idea, as I found no malware on my computers I am using

[Portucuenta]

Just to let you know how efficient Google handled my case, I must say very customer friendly.
The say they will never invoice me for that amout, and I look now forward that they reopen my account after I changed the password.

The Hacker went into the system using my gmail account. How he came over my password, no idea, as I found no malware on my computers I am using

Something really similar happened to me last week, instead of ringtones it was office and other microsoft software. And it happened as you described, google were really efficient, and I have no idea either how they logged in. From other sites, they say it is due to a spyware, but couldn't locate it here neither.

[dragonfeet]

Dear All,
Is it better to use prepaid payment instead of post pay payment on Adwords account?
Please advise.
Thanks!