The slew of phony emails, purporting to come from Google AdWords, continues unabated. The emails, with subject lines like "Re-activate your account", claim there was a problem processing a credit card payment and urging recipients to click to log into their account and update the credit card info (see my earlier post).

Responding opens unsuspecting victims to a double-whammy: The phishing site (mimicking the look of AdWords, or framing the site) can capture both the login email/password, and -- if the user proceeds to update it -- their credit card number as well.

To crack down on the scam, Google has established an email account phishing@google.com, to which they encourage you to send examples of any such phishing emails you receive.