We know that Google has a history of calling companies and selling them to use Google Ads. Sometimes that means they may call your clients that are already using Google Ads to convince them to do things differently, which might result in you losing a client. These poaching efforts, either intentionally or not, happen all the time.

Pamela Lund, a respected SEM, had a run in recently with one and said they even called Google Ads, AdWords – by its old name. Here is her tweet:

What is this Teleperformance? Well, Google has a help page about this company. They are legit Google Ads outsourced partners and they can use google.com email addresses, even though they are outsourced. Here is what the page says:

So when you get an email or call from someone that has proof they are @google.com – that can be pretty hard to compete with.

Sad to see Google doing this through a partner.

Forum discussion at Twitter.