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The issue has been bandied about for years by online advertisers, yet click fraud remains misunderstood. Even with a spate of media attention devoted to the subject in the latter part of this year, a recent panel at Search Engine Strategies in Chicago revealed a lack of industry-wide consensus on what constitutes an act of click fraud.

So ClickZ News asked experts at Google and Overture how the two leading search engines define click fraud, and what proprietary mechanisms they have in place to protect advertisers against it. This is the second article in a series on click fraud.

Click Fraud Defined

Overture defines click fraud as, “clicks arising for reasons other than the good-faith intention of an Internet user to visit a Web site to purchase goods or services or to obtain information,” according to spokesperson Dina Freeman.

Google is a bit more specific, defining click fraud, “or invalid clicks, as any method used to artificially and/or maliciously generate clicks or page impressions,” according to Salar Kamangar, director of product management.

Examples of invalid clicks, according to Kamangar, include: manual clicks on an ad to purposefully increase the ad spend; deliberate clicks on an ad to increase profits by site owners hosting the ads; and automated clicking tools, ‘bots, or other deceptive software.

Both Overture and Google have proprietary anti-click fraud technology, which they refine on an ongoing basis. Both keep the system details secret for security reasons.

Overture’s “click protection system combines proprietary systems, filtering technologies, and human intervention,” according to Freeman. The company says it’s been continually refined since 1998.

“Our system operates 24 hours a day, monitoring each click and filtering out those that are questionable, or clearly unqualified,” Freeman said. “We track search and click patterns across more than 50 data points, including IP address, users’ session information, browser information, and pattern recognition.”

For its part, Google uses its own proprietary technology to analyze clicks to determine whether they fit a pattern of activity intended to artificially drive up an advertiser’s costs.

“Our system automatically distinguishes between clicks generated through normal use by users, and clicks generated by unethical users and automated robots, enabling us to filter out invalid clicks,” Kamangar said.

Google provided three examples of techniques it uses to detect invalid click activity. First, it employs standard click monitoring techniques; examining every click into its system based on signals such as IP address, duplicate clicks, and other basic click patterns for invalid click activity.

Second, Google uses advanced monitoring techniques developed by a team holding PhDs in computer science, statistics, and mathematics to detect and handle invalid click activity. “This group has developed innovative and effective proprietary security mechanisms which we continually augment and improve to adapt to changes in invalid click behavior,” Kamangar said. “We invest in research and development to continually upgrade our detection mechanisms to proactively combat invalid click activity.”

Finally, Google employs a team of technical specialists whose job is to manually investigate individual cases where click fraud is suspected. “The team uses specialized tools and a wide variety of techniques based on extensive experience tracking and monitoring invalid click activity,” Kamangar said. “When signs of invalid click activity are detected, this team has advanced resources for identifying the perpetrators of this activity.”

If a Google review reveals invalid click activity, advertisers are credited and publishers may have their payments adjusted. Additionally, Google reserves the right to take legal action, as it did against Texas-based Auction Experts International in a lawsuit it filed in November.

“Any advertiser or publisher participating in invalid click activity or other related offense is subject to being banned from our system and subject to prosecution,” Kamangar warns.

Source: clickz.com

From: USA Today – The Associated Press

An Arkansas judge Thursday approved a $90 million settlement between Google and advertisers who claimed the Internet search engine company improperly billed them for “clicks” that didn’t lead to genuine customers seeking their products.

Miller County Circuit Judge Joe Griffin called the settlement “fair, reasonable and adequate” and downplayed claims it hurt small advertisers. More than 70 objections were filed, with smaller companies saying they didn’t have the resources to prove “click fraud” losses.

By settling claims made in the plaintiffs’ class-action lawsuit, Google will give advertising credits that are the equivalent of a $4.50 refund on every $1,000 spent in its advertising network during the past 4¼ years.

No one will receive cash except the lawyers, who will split $30 million.

Some of the plaintiffs went before Griffin on Monday to argue that Google hadn’t taken reasonable care to prevent click fraud and overstated the steps it has taken against would-be swindlers. Click fraud drives up advertisers’ costs by falsely indicating the number of Web users who have “clicked” on an Internet ad.

A Texarkana company — Lane’s Gifts and Collectibles — filed the lawsuit, which Griffin certified as a class action. Google did not admit liability in the case, which also involves other Internet companies whose cases continue.

Google lawyer Nicole Wong said the company was pleased by Griffin’s decision.

“We look forward to continuing to manage invalid clicks effectively and provide our advertisers with an outstanding return on their investment,” she said in a statement.

Google lawyer Daralyn Durie had told Griffin this week that 19 of the company’s 20 largest advertisers had agreed to the settlement and urged its approval.

In his ruling, Griffin said based his decision on the strength of Lane’s case, Google’s ability to pay, the potential expense of further litigation and the limited amount of opposition.

Those who opposed the settlement said the agreement switched the burden of proof to them, and they argued they didn’t have the resources to easily pursue their claims. Griffin said, however, their task wouldn’t be impossible.

“The settlement class is not required … to submit records or documents that they simply do not possess,” Griffin wrote. “The settlement class is not burdened or discouraged from filing claims because they are required only to provide information to the best of their knowledge in submitting a claim form.”

Daralyn Durie, an attorney representing Google, said the majority of class members have agreed to the settlement, including 19 of the company’s 20 largest advertisers.

In Internet advertising, clicking on ads or windows — typically displayed at the top and sides of Web pages — triggers sales commissions even if the activity doesn’t lead to a sale. Click fraud cropped up several years ago as a way to drain advertising budgets or funnel illicit revenue to websites.

An independent report filed in court last week said while Google appears to be doing reasonably well protecting advertisers from scam artists preying upon Internet advertisers, it remains unclear how much the system is being bilked by click fraud.

Since 2001, the ads have generated $15.7 billion in revenue for Google and its partners, turning the Mountain View, Calif.-based company into one of the world’s most prized businesses.

Under the settlement, if advertisers do not claim the full amount available, a portion would be made available to charitable organizations. Griffin also said 556 advertisers notified him they did not want to participate in the class-action lawsuit.

AdSense is horrible

Contributor: Manish Arora

Think about a pipeline on Internet which is carrying millions of dollars and you just need to request for a free connection from that pipeline and start making money. Sounds exciting to you… me too!!!

You might be thinking that what the heck this person is talking about, well but it’s true. Within 7 days you can be able to exploit world’s biggest online Ad provider’s advertisement model. Yes you are right… it’s Google AdSense (To know more about AdSense and PPC model read my blog post at http://mgoos.com/blogs/ppc-cracked.htm).

Exploitation of Google’s AdSense is three step process, yes it is true!

1). Open an account with Google AdSense, whether you have a website or not (Its true!).

2). After Confirmation of account opening get an ad unit from wizard.

3). In Ad Unit you will find a pub-id (publisher ID), place that to my click simulation JavaScript code.

And here you are… you will start getting money at the speed of Indian taxi meter!!!

Now let’s go step by step with screenshot of whatever I said.

Open an account with Google AdSense, whether you have a website or not !!!

We people usually search for many things on Google or Yahoo’s search engine, have you ever thought that search result URLs are of very much importance here, well believe me it is!

How I did it? Very simple, I searched for blogs in Google and randomly I have picked one blog’s URL to register. See the screenshots of account opening process with Google AdSense.

1). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/01.jpg

2). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/02.jpg

3). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/03.jpg

4). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/04.jpg

5). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/05.jpg

6). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/06.jpg

7). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/07.jpg

8). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/08.jpg

9). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/09.jpg

You can see how easy it is to open an account with AdSense. Ok now move with next step…

After Confirmation of account opening get an ad unit from wizard

Well it is important part and very easy 5 step process.

1). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/10.jpg

2). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/11.jpg

3). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/12.jpg

4). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/13.jpg

5). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/14.jpg

So now you have the ad unit code. In this ad unit code you can see a publisher ID (pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX). This ID is used by Google to uniquely identify a publisher and is the key to generate money.

Place pub-id to my click simulation JavaScript code

Let’s start with basics, first of all we will analyze Google’s ad generator code. You can download original ad generator javascript from http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js.

I have modified it for better understanding which you can download from http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/modified_show_ads.js.txt

In modified code you will see a function at line number 73 named, function G(b,a,d) { … }. Google uses this function to generate ads. This function creates an IFRAME element in the page and Google set’s the source of this page to a dynamically prepared URL from client’s browser and screen setting.

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-1111222233334444&dt=1185613795556&lmt=1185613394&format=728x90_as&output=html&url=http%3A%2F%2F%25www.mysite.com%2Findex.php&ad_type=text&cc=140&u_h=1024&u_w=1280&u_ah=934&u_aw=1280&u_cd=32&u_tz=330&u_java=true

Ok let’s analyze this URL step by step,

Ad Page URL : http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads

Query Parameters:

client=ca-pub-1111222233334444

dt=1185613795556

lmt=1185613394

format=728x90_as

output=html

url=http%3A%2F%2F%www.mysite.com%2Findex.php

ad_type=text

cc=140

u_h=1024

u_w=1280

u_ah=934

u_aw=1280

u_cd=32&u_tz=330

u_java=true

the source URL of IFRAME includes all above (more or less) parameters. The client parameter identifies unique client, dt is date time, lmt is last modified time of the page, format is ad format etc. You can know meaning of each parameter from line 236 in my modified_show_ads.js.

So this whole URL says that “I am a HTML page from http://www.mysite.com/index.php opened in a browser window, available screen dimensions are 1280×934 and JavaScript is enabled in the browser… Give me a advertise page”. Now when Google confirms the publisher ID and other parameters it gives you an HTML page having ad links and description about ad (precisely Ad Unit).

All these ad links are came from other then your domain i.e. googlesyndication.com. Here Google is protecting there ads from sniffing or spoofing with browser’s security feature of not allowing cross domain scripting. If we can access links in Google’s IFRAME then we can traverse ad links programmatically and can make money. That’s it… we got the key of making money!!!

But how it’s possible??? Very simple prepare and execute this URL on your web server and send the resultant HTML page which has Ad links to the client. In this case you can break the limit of cross domain scripting and earn thousands of dollars.

Thinking I am saying lie… no, not at all see my account’s screenshot http://www.mgoos.com/screenshot.jpg

Need more proof… okay here you are, pics of a Digital photo frame cum mp3/mp4 player from Google which they sent me as X-Mas gift…

1). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/15.jpg

2). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/16.jpg

3). http://www.mgoos.com/cracked/17.jpg

Now you know how horrible Google’s AdSense is for Ad Provider and you might be wondering that Google’s main source of revenue is AdSense!!!

Google’s Security Flaw

Contributor: Manish Arora

I own a website and have a Google AdSense account. In the early days when I was getting information about earning money via my website, I came to know about Google AdSense. Being an engineer I am always curious about what is happening behind the scenes, so I went through the AdSense ad generator code which can be easily download from Google’s server, which they used to generate Ads.

To know more about PPC model of advertisement I had gone through number of articles/reports on Pay Per Click mechanism including the report of Dr. Tuzhilin (Professor of Information Systems at the Stern School of Business at New York University), who evaluated Google’s invalid click detection efforts (Attached PDF Report [Source: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/07/25/revealed-how-google-manages-click-fraud/]).

After going through all those articles and analyzing Google’s code I found a way to simulate human behavior in click generation and page impressions in proper (acceptable) ratio from different geographic location (IP address) and was able to credit thousands of dollars in my AdSense account (By not a single human being generated click). See my account’s screen shot http://www.mgoos.com/screenshot.jpg

This all could be possible with a simple trick… execute Google’s Ad Generator code on server and retrieve all ad links at web server only (with the help of html parser). Then send those Ad links to client and navigate them from client side. Interested to know more… visit http://mgoos.com/blogs/adsense-cracked.htm or write a comment to this post. Read complete post to know things in detail…

Table of contents:

• What is Google AdSense?
• What is Click Fraud?
• Is it safe and reliable to show ads via Google AdSense?
• Google sued for invalid clicks!!
• Background of my findings about the flaw in Google’s system

What is Google AdSense? [Source: https://www.google.com/adsense/]

“Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their web site’s content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site — or matched to the characteristics and interests of the visitors your content attracts — you’ll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages.

It’s also a way for website publishers to provide Google web and site search to their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.”

To explain it in detail, [Source: Dr. Tuzhilin’s report (Professor of Information Systems at the Stern School of Business at New York University) ]

Google AdSense is a program for the website owners (known as publishers) to display Google’s ads on their websites and earn money from Google as a result. To participate in this program, website publishers need to register with Google and be accepted into the program by Google. These ads shown on the publishers’ websites are administered by Google and generate revenue on either per-click or per-thousand-ads-displayed basis.

Since we are interested in click fraud, we will limit our considerations only to clicks and to the PPC (Pay Per Click) payment method. AdSense was launched in March 2003 and constituted the second major milestone in Google’s PPC advertising model that generated significant additional revenues for the company.

There are two ways for publishers to participate in the AdSense program:

• AdSense for Search (AFS): publishers allow Google to place its ads on their websites when the user does keyword-based searches on their sites. In other words, as a result of a search, relevant ads are displayed as links sponsored by Google, and these links are produced using the same methods as on Google.com. Examples of such publishers include AOL and EarthLink. Moreover, the search results pages containing the ads are customizable to fit with the publisher’s site theme, and may have a different “flavor” than the ads on Google.com.

• AdSense for Content (AFC): the system that automatically delivers targeted ads to the publisher’s web pages that the user is visiting. These ads are based on the content of the visited pages, geographical location and some other factors. These ads are usually preceded by statement “Ads by Google.” Google has developed methods for matching the ads to the content of the pages that also take into account the CPC (Cost Per Click) values when selecting the best ads to place on the page. The whole idea is to display ads that are relevant to the users and to what the users are looking for on the site so that they would click on the displayed ads. This is also combined with financial considerations (the CPC factor) to maximize the expected revenues for Google from displaying the ad.

In both the AFS and the AFC cases, the publishers and Google are being paid by the advertisers on the PPC basis. Google does not disclose how it shares the clicking revenues with the publishers. What the publishers can see though, are the detailed on line reports helping the publishers to track their earnings. These reports contain several statistics of clicking activities on the ads displayed on publisher’s website. These statistics help the publisher to get an idea of how well his or her website is performing in the AdSense program and how much the publisher is expected to earn over time.

As we can see from this description, there is a direct incentive for the publishers to attract traffic to their websites and encourage the visitors to click on Google’s ads on the site to maximize their own AdSense income. They can do this in three ways:

• Build a valuable content on the site that attracts the most highly paid ads.

• Use a wide range of traffic generating techniques, including online advertising.

• Encourage clicks on ads using legitimate means (Google has a list of prohibited activities for the publishers, such as explicit requests to click on Google’s ads, that can lead to terminations of their accounts).

Unfortunately, overzealous and unethical users can “stretch” or directly abuse this system in the effort to maximize their revenues from the AdSense program. This leads to the invalid clicks problem discussed in the next section.

It is interesting to note that AdWords and AdSense have different motivations for the unethical users to abuse the programs. Unethical users on AdWords constitute advertisers or their partners whose motivation is to hurt other advertisers. In contrast to this, the main motivation of the AdSense unethical publishers is to enrich themselves through certain prohibited means. Therefore, motivations of these two groups of unethical users are significantly different.

Although both motivations are important and should be addressed in the most serious manner, greedy motivations of unethical AdSense publishers constitute more serious problem for Google than the desire to hurt the competitors by unethical advertisers or their partners. This results in a significantly greater percentage of invalid clicks being generated by unethical AdSense publishers than by unethical AdWords advertisers (however, it is not clear if this statement is still true in terms of absolute numbers of invalid clicks generated by these two sources because of different volumes of clicks for the two programs).

What is Click Fraud? [Source: http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3453201]

“Overture (Company, now part of Yahoo!) defines click fraud as, “clicks arising for reasons other than the good-faith intention of an Internet user to visit a Web site to purchase goods or services or to obtain information,” according to spokesperson Dina Freeman.

Google is a bit more specific, defining click fraud, “or invalid clicks, as any method used to artificially and/or maliciously generate clicks or page impressions,” according to Salar Kamangar, director of product management.

Examples of invalid clicks, according to Kamangar, include: manual clicks on an ad to purposefully increase the ad spend; deliberate clicks on an ad to increase profits by site owners hosting the ads; and automated clicking tools, ‘bots, or other deceptive software.”

Is it safe and reliable to show ads via Google AdSense?

According to Google spoke person [Source: http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3453201],

“Our system automatically distinguishes between clicks generated through normal use by users, and clicks generated by unethical users and automated robots, enabling us to filter out invalid clicks,” Kamangar said.

Google provided three examples of techniques it uses to detect invalid click activity. First, it employs standard click monitoring techniques; examining every click into its system based on signals such as IP address, duplicate clicks, and other basic click patterns for invalid click activity.

Second, Google uses advanced monitoring techniques developed by a team holding PhDs in computer science, statistics, and mathematics to detect and handle invalid click activity. “This group has developed innovative and effective proprietary security mechanisms which we continually augment and improve to adapt to changes in invalid click behavior,” Kamangar said. “We invest in research and development to continually upgrade our detection mechanisms to proactively combat invalid click activity.”

Finally, Google employs a team of technical specialists whose job is to manually investigate individual cases where click fraud is suspected. “The team uses specialized tools and a wide variety of techniques based on extensive experience tracking and monitoring invalid click activity,” Kamangar said. “When signs of invalid click activity are detected, this team has advanced resources for identifying the perpetrators of this activity.”

Google sued for invalid clicks!!

To the contrary of their claim, in year 2005 one lawsuit were filed to claim reimbursement of invalid clicks and in year 2006 Google had settled the matter of invalid clicks in $90 million. Please refer the links below for more details,

1). http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/279182_clickfraud28.html

2). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11734026/

3). http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-07-27-google-clickfraud_x.htm?csp=34

Background of my findings about the flaw in Google’s system

I own a website and have a Google AdSense account. In the early days when I was getting information about earning money via my website, I came to know about Google AdSense. Being an engineer I am always curious about what is happening behind the scenes, so I went through the AdSense ad generator code which can be easily download from Google’s server, which they used to generate Ads.

To know more about PPC model of advertisement I had gone through number of articles/reports on Pay Per Click mechanism including the report of Dr. Tuzhilin (Professor of Information Systems at the Stern School of Business at New York University), who evaluated Google’s invalid click detection efforts (Attached PDF Report [Source: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/07/25/revealed-how-google-manages-click-fraud/]).

After going through all those articles and analyzing Google’s code I found a way to simulate human behavior in click generation and page impressions in proper (acceptable) ratio from different geographic location (IP address) and was able to credit thousands of dollars in my AdSense account (By not a single human being generated click).

This all could be possible with a simple trick… execute Google’s Ad Generator code on server and retrieve all ad links at web server only (with the help of html parser). Then send those Ad links to client and navigate them from client side.

“The bottom-line conclusion of the report is that Google’s efforts against click fraud are in fact reasonable. At several points in his report, he calls out the quality of our inspection systems and notes their constant improvement. It is an independent report, so not surprisingly there are other aspects of it with which we don’t fully agree. But overall it is a validation of what we have said for some time about our work against invalid clicks.”

The full report contains lots of interesting information on Google’s approach to dealing with click fraud. Here’s the high-level description of the approach

“Google has built the following four ‘lines of defense’ for detecting invalid clicks: pre-filtering, online filtering, automated offline detection and manual offline detection, in that order. Google deploys different detection methods in each of these stages: the rule-based and anomaly-based approaches in the pre-filtering and the filtering stages, the combination of all the three approaches in the automated offline detection stage, and the anomaly-based approach in the offline manual inspection stage. This deployment of different methods in different stages gives Google an opportunity to detect invalid clicks using alternative techniques and thus increases their chances of detecting more invalid clicks in one of these stages, preferably proactively in the early stages.”

The report also has a good overview of the pay-per-click model and Google’s AdSense program. Professor Tuzhilin concluded that the basic approach is sound and the thresholds set entirely by the engineering team with no input from financial officers. Here’s his bottom line:

“In summary, I have been asked to evaluate Google’s invalid click detection efforts and to conclude whether these efforts are reasonable or not. Based on my evaluation, I conclude that Google’s efforts to combat click fraud are reasonable.”

If you don’t have time to read the full 47 page report, the Search Engine Watch blog has summarized some of the most interesting findings.

While this report is very interesting to the technical community, not all of the plaintiffs are happy with the $90M settlement and some are fighting it. In a related development, CNET reports that Google has announced it will show advertisers the number of invalid clicks on their ads starting Tuesday.

Full disclosure department: the UMBC ebiquity site carries AdSense ads and uses the resulting income to support Mr. Capresso.

Google’s AdSense program is a large source of revenue for the company, but is also a huge target for click fraud. While they have developed methods to help reign in click fraud, it is still enough of a threat to ad revenue that Google acknowledged such in a pre-IPO filing with the SEC. Now Google is a publicly traded company, they will have to do everything they can to help protect advertisers while minimizing money paid out to click fraudsters. That strategy now includes a civil lawsuit against the company Auctions Expert International to help recover money accumulated through fraudulent ad clicks.

The case, filed Nov. 15 in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County in California, is among the first civil lawsuits to relate to click fraud. The lawsuit charges that Texas-based Auctions Expert International signed up to display Google’s targeted text advertising on its Web site, and then fraudulently clicked on the ads to profit from its pay-per-click system.

With search advertising expecting to top US$3.2 billion this year, experts estimate that 5 to 20 percent of that revenue is lost to fraud. Much of that money may not have passed through Google in the absence of click fraud, but if Google does not act aggressively, advertisers may have second thoughts about buying ads if a good portion of their money was being lost to fraud. Some of the smaller fraudsters may fall through the cracks, but the more suits against the larger ones could be in the offing.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google did not say how much money was lost, but the company is seeking compensatory and punitive damages to be determined at trial.

How successful the company will be in suing Google is up to question. — mainly because the copyrighted images and passwords are not being hosted by Google. Any images hosted by Google are thumbnails, and a federal appeals court ruled that the usage of thumbnails does not constitute a copyright violation. A second part of the suit concerns website search results that point to sites that hosts password lists to the company’s website. However, the company may run into resistance because they are going after Google and not the websites that are actually hosting the copyright infringing materials. Of course, Perfect 10 may not be expecting to win. The entire motive for the suit may be the leveraging of publicity gained from the lawsuit to drive traffic to their website.

MediaPost reports that the amount of money Google won from the Auctions Expert International lawsuit is $75,000. Interestingly, this is significantly higher than the estimated $50,000 Auctions Expert International actually defrauded Google out of by hiring people to click their ads.

GOOGLE QUIETLY WON A $75,000 judgment in May in a click fraud case against former AdSense participant Auctions Expert International and its two founders.Google’s lawsuit, filed late last year in Santa Clara County Superior Court in California, charged that the Houston-based Auctions Expert “artificially and/or fraudulently” generated clicks on the ads Google served to the company’s Web site. Auctions Expert, like other AdSense publishers, received a share of pay-per-click revenue when Web visitors clicked on certain ads on the Auctions Expert page.
Google alleged in legal papers that Auctions Expert hired dozens of people to click on the site’s ads, to the tune of at least $50,000.

Technically, Auctions Expert is out the $50,000 they earned through fraudulent clicks, the extra $25,000 added to the judgment, as well as site related costs, including what they paid to the actual ad clickers. It was an expensive lesson learned by Sergio Morfin and Alexei Leonov of Auctions Expert.Whether Google will see the money or not is another issue. They won the default judgment because Auctions Expert International did not respond to the lawsuit.

Is this the last lawsuit against click frauding publishers that we will see? Likely not. And click fraud artists have more to worry about than just having their account suspended and losing their 30-60 days of AdSense earnings. They should also be worried about a potential lawsuit.

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