Is this a scam letter? If it is how can they profit?

[iads]

I got the following letter from who is suppose to be Google, but I don't even advertise that site on Google and the site is not even finished being built yet.


Hello,

This is an important warning to tell you that your AdWords account is
at risk of being suspended due to violations of our advertising policies.
If suspended, your account will no longer run ads.

-- Effect on your account

Your AdWords accounts are at serious risk of suspension if your ads or
sites continue violating our advertising policies. Once your account is
suspended, your ads will no longer run, your related AdWords accounts will
be suspended, and you will not be able to open any new accounts.

Read more about our suspension policies at
https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/2375414.

-- What you can do

Here is what you will need to do to prevent your account from being
suspended:

1. Make the necessary changes to your ads and sites that currently
violate our policies. We have listed some examples below.

Please note that the following actions will not resolve the policy
violation: pausing ads, campaigns, or ad groups; deleting campaigns or ad
groups; deleting ads that promote disabled sites.

2. Resubmit your corrected ads and sites for us to review.

3. Make sure that, going forward, all of your ads and sites comply
with our advertising policies: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy.

-- Policy violations to fix

Here are some ads and/or sites that violate our policies. Please note
that this list is not exhaustive and serves only to illustrate some of the
policies that your ads and sites have violated.

Sites:

Date of violation: 2014-01-06
Site: ******.com
Policy issue: Spam techniques
Details & instructions:

http://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/50424?hl=en&utm_source=policy&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gen

If you believe there has been an error, we want to help. Find out how
to contact us by visiting: https://support.google.com/adwords/contact (you
will see our available support channels and hours listed there).

Sincerely,
The Google AdWords Team

[clivejo]

are you using any of googles services on the site? like analysitics or webmaster tools?

[iads]

No. The site is not even up yet. It is little more then a domain holding page. Not being marketed in any way. Someone said that it might be because of something the previous domain owner did, but I've owned it for over a year waiting until I had time to do something with it..

[clivejo]

check the email headers and verify if it was send from Google, could be a phishing email.

[doneritehosting]

Dont click off any links in the email... go to google adsense login and submit a ticket about the email and the email address used to send it.... find out first hand if it is google.

[Tom Alexander]

Hello.

The message looks legit, however as clivejo advised the message headers would help.

You can check the headers and provide it to us so we could assist further: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22454?hl=en

Best Regards,
Tom.