Category Archives: click-fraud

Anatomy of a scam

Posted on April 1, 2007 by

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%

Posted on March 1, 2007 by

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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