Spammers Trying For Adsense Revenue

[KirstyM]

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Anyone else had a spam mail today asking them to visit a site and click on their ads?


<----
*xxxxxxxxx*.com needs your help!

Once again we ask you to please visit *******.com and click on
some of our advertisers, especially Google ads because they help to
pay the rent too.

Thank you!
--->

I'm off to get my "reporting people to Google" hat on!

[jamesgevans]

I cannot believe that people is doing that !!! usually if they are professional they could get a "proxy clicker" and make a lot of money with it...what a waste of time !

James

[lakrasia]

I'd be tempted to click on their ads a thousand times and get them banned - it's what they deserve, as it's pure theft from those who pay for Google ads.

I was chatting to someone recently who told me that he knew someone in a highly specialised niche industry - there was a day conference, which everyone in the business attended. For that day his advertising costs halved, because so many of his competitors hadn't been able to click on his ads and drive his costs up. Sounds incredible, but I do believe the guy who told me. I was particularly surprised, as I'd assumed that kind of fraud was automated.

[getvisible]

Matt Cutts said the best way to report them is to click on the "Ads by Google" bit then on that page click on "Send Google your thoughts on the ads you just saw "

[Bod]

You would have thought this would help reporting people to google but alais I dont think google are that bothered to be honest.

I and a few other reported that Soccer AM football forum as the owner was telling his members to click on the add at least 2 or 3 times a day.....

Some 5 months later Google still havent done nothing, i even emailed them pictures to prove it, after 8 months I gave up and they still had the google ads up there, now image 1000 plus members clicking on a ad 3 times a day, your talking thousands a week.

They now have 30,000 even if only 10% clicked on the ads its still making that site a fortune for what, i bet no one buys anything

[Another Media]

This is kinda shocking as it's a pure violation of the TOS. I would have thought that Google would be clamping down on this kind of thing.

Maybe they turn a blind eye or are at least somewhat forgiving depending on the site. As we all know, they have been known to dish out different treatments for different sized companies. Thirty thousand users on a forum is a large number. I'm sure they wouldn't want to miss out on that kind of revenue.

[smn2]

Hi,

I and a few other reported that Soccer AM football forum as the owner was telling his members to click on the add at least 2 or 3 times a day.....

This is why, as an Adwords advertiser, I'd only advertise my sites
on the search results of Google. (Though, I thought you could track
where your clicks were coming from in terms of the Adsense Content network?)

Steve