Time To Avoid Nairaland- Phishing On Nairaland-

Today, I started getting phishing warning messages from my Internet security software each time I try opening any thread on Nairaland.

The link to the offending website is posted below. seun can something be done about this threat?


http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-6465801557104924&dt=1219258884546&lmt=1219258883&alternate_ad_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nairaland.com%2Fdef2-ad.htm&format=160x600_as&output=html&correlator=1219258884546&channel=7280306636&url=http, ext_image&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nairaland.com%2Fnigeria%2Ftopic-161989.0.html&frm=0&cc=100&ga_vid=1756787414.1219257713&ga_sid=1219257713&ga_hid=1513681444&ga_fc=true&flash=9.0.115.0&u_h=800&u_w=1280&u_ah=770&u_aw=1280&u_cd=32&u_tz=120&u_his=4&u_java=tru

its that what google adsense is about?

to phish for people's data

so wetin you talk, answer quick before suicide bombers visit where you dey

that link is an adsense link na

The poster, I do not think that Google adsense links is a phishing.

Can you tell me what is phishing? Please educate yourself learning new meaning of phishing! If you don't know, then go look up Wikipedia explaining the detail at below link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

Google Adsense is a random REAL BANNER LINKS that has paid by many real advertisers selling their products/service placing through Google Adsense advertisement contracts where many registered webmasters installed their merchantID of goggle adsense making money. Their merchantID turns into encrypted that no one can see.

Let me explain why Google Adsense link exposes weird encrypted? It is self-hidden merchandID that Google Adsense knows who it belong to.  The fraudsters can steal the links placing on his/her fraudster's site making money.

But the real problem is money goes to the real webmaster, not a fraudster because of encrypted revealed not match the IP address/merchantID in order to get paid.  Google Adsense is smart catching anyone who break Google Adsense privacy policy in order to ban the webmaster or fraudster losing their account with Google Adsense.