Someone made $5k cheating Adsense

[Tephus]

Check this out.

A man from India generated over $5k in revenue in a couple of days with his click generator script. Not sure if Google revoked his commissions/banned him but it's pretty scary for advertisers out there.

Now I'd think twice about putting my money in Adsense.

[David Tan]

Wow, I'm more interested in why he's being such a good samaritan and alerting everyone to a tried and tested system to commit more frauds.

Anyway, I read this article about 4 different types of fraudsters. From really dumb 'Regressive Monkeys' to 'Fraudster Maestros'. Very interesting and it explains some of the necessary steps that needs to be taken to commit an effective fraud.

Most interesting is the link to the fraud maestro page where chat sessions are used to manipulate horny men into clicking links.

[ZachW]

The only person he's cheated is himself. Google isn't stupid enough to overlook such a simple scam. He's definitely banned.

[SpaceBOT]

Well, if he cashed his check quickly, he may have gotten away with it. But I am sure now that the rabbits are out of the hat and roaming freely, Big G, would have refunded it's advertisers anyways.

[David Tan]

I wonder if there's any news on how widespread such 'endorsements' succeeded in promoting such 'lucrative' activities? Who would have tried it out (for those immune to obeying the law) and how many?

Also, if hundred of people did it within the same period, would google have the time to search, check, ban all of them?

Plus if Google had the time to send gifts to him, it seems that he had all the time in the world to cash in. It seem to take him around 20 days to achieve $5000. If he wanted to cash in quickly, he could also request payment when it's at $2500.

And lastly, same with previous post. A hundred personal proxy, simutaneous operating this scam and cashing in a period of 2-3 days... becomes a $300,000 scam?

[Tephus]

On what conditions does Google send gifts? Anyone?