Category Archives: click-fraud

Anatomy of a scam

A new report from Microsoft (didn’t know they did these kinds of interesting reports) and UC Davis outlines the ways in which web spammers are operationally organized (NYT had a review on the report as well). Its an interesting albeit … Continue reading

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Google: Click Fraud at 0.02%

Interesting post on inside Adwords blog about the extent of click fraud. The upshot is that Google is claiming that they are only seeing 0.02% of all clicks as being invalid clicks but initially recorded by Google as valid clicks. … Continue reading

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