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| Subject: | If you must cheat with AdSense don't do it this way. | ||
| Author: | WilliamCharlwood: view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites | ||
| Date: | 15:57:40 26 June 2004 | ||
Apparently a man in California has allegedly been trying to defraud Google first by writing a program which created fraudulent AdSense clicks. Then he tried to sell his program to web publishers. Did he use AdWords to promote it I wonder?:-
Headline: Cheat the AdSense system
Body1: How to cheat AdSense & steal money
Body2: from Google & advertisers.Info here
URL: www.AdSenseFraud.com
Not finding many buyers - did his ad go to the wrong landing page? - he eventually hit on the bright idea of blackmailing Google instead to the tune of $150,000.
Oddly enough he didn’t get away with it.
IMHO if you’re going to blackmail Google you at least ought to be talking real money rather than stuff under the $million mark.
He doesn’t sound too smart to me but this must be the nightmare scenario for Google and its AdSense program: as soon as stories get out about people successfully cheating the AdSense system, advertisers will take fright and Google, alongside the hundreds of thousands of publishers who rely to a degree on AdSense income, will find a revenue stream under threat.
Next threat: clicking circles: "I’ll click yours if you click mine."
If you must cheat with AdSense don't do it this way., WilliamCharlwood, 26 Jun 15:57