I think that's exactly why Google sends out form letters as their first wave of defense.
Well, it could have been the bug in my Rails code. I find that unlikely, because the numerical impact would not push this campaign out of its historical norms. It could have been a bug in Google's code (like their automated diagnostic reporting "Your account has no credit card associated with it", which is contrary to the truth and scares me because if the right hand of their system is as borked as the left hand then that very well could be my problem). It could have been a concerted effort by a group of bored Dutch housewives to simultaneously monopolize 99.999% of the entire advertising inventory on teaching bingo sites.
If Google were interested in talking to me, there would be a little less wild speculation above. Heck, "I checked your account. Everything is fine on our end. Best of luck to you." would be an improvement on the answer I got.
I mean, it could be a lot of different things causing it.
The bogus error is bad, though. Also, as a paying customer, you would think they would have a better response. Damn :[
Maybe someone ran some numbers and found out it was a better idea to just hit everyone with form letters first, to dissuade the people who will never get adwords working anyway.
Am I the only who checks my adwords account almost daily when I have a campaign running? A month seems like a long time to wait, plus you'd expect to see regular charges in your bank/credit account.