AdSense Click Fraud in India – How The Whole System Works?

Scratch my back and I scratch your back…not a great list for India to be in.

Why don’t you send this article to Google, so they can work more effectively on fruad clicks… I guess google already knows this… or probably they are already working in this. They may have record for india about this… ;) Google is smart.

soon their account will be disabled for life, nice job to do,

I have seen similar advertisements in papers like mumbai mirror, HT classifields, Mid-day almost all newspapers. And mostly its the same advertisements that are repeated.

I totally agree.. Reason such as these make google to ban more people. Well, some innocents too get banned at times.. Nothing to blame Google!

this has gone on from the time adsense come out. In fact, it was the American bogus companies that began the trending in india.

it started in 1995, and at one time had some back chatter with seth. G on this

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Where theres money involved there will always be crime and rich quick schemes, its part of human nature I suppose.
The rotten few always spoil it for everyone else.
Regards.

There’s also another way people in India are doing this. Orkut has become way too famous here, so those who have an Adsense account go to Orkut, ask the fellow Adsense publishers to exchange their instant messenger id’s and then it goes like you said – you click mine I will click yours!

There are around 5000+ people who do this daily. But of course, they get banned eventually.

These people don’t understand that they spoil their country name for just few pennies. Is click frauders listening?????????

hi

on 18 th this month my account also get banned..but no mail has been received by me till now..no reasons have been given,,i appealed google but still same thing no reply..i have a daily visitors abt 100 on my blog but….dey say invalid click..what shuld i do

hi amit,
these schemes do work and these guys have got pretty advanced in this. I know someone who has been doing this for months and gets over $400 per month doing just click fraud.

So Google desperately needs to take this seriously otherwise it would definitely lose advertisers!!

There’s a new website called makemyclick.com which shows websites with google ads inside its website asking members to click on the ad, wait for few mins, load another page and click and so on…

Shouldn’t that site be banned for officially indulging in click fraud?

Shameful act!

This is an old business in India. Mostly these click based websites (the websites where people clicks these ads) target young boys /girls & house wives to be part their clicking business. They gives every participant an impression that this is a genuine business and these are a part of some project. 90% of the people who participate in this click business think they are doing it for some good. This company even charges these participants an initial amount.

The most interesting part is for marketing purpose most of these companies uses multilevel marketing plans. I have seen some well educated people participating in this business.

Don’t be shocked!! Some sites also partner with these sites for clicks.

and some such sites (like googlecashcow.com ) advertise officially on google adwords (I can provide screen print if needed)

google is a money hungry corporate giant, just like microsoft, if you can screw them, do it, hey screw a lot of ligitimage adsense accounts by simply banning them with no valid reason, becasue they think they are the GOD of the internet

Everyone is talking about the problem but not the solution. I think these click frauds can be controlled by providing information to the masses and Google is the only one who can take these steps.

Thanks,

I guess the designers wanted observe patterns using IP addresses and cookies. The crooks can disable the cookies and the IP address assignments are chaotic. The fellows at Google didn’t know that there is no uniform way of finding which IP belongs where :) The national level ISPs distribute them at will and disclose any info about location, only when the havaldars get after them? Click Fraud is easy..keep changing the IP by logging in and out of connection often, and keep deleting the cookies :)

one another thing..I can see enough stupid fellows on this board..absolutely spineless and keep hoping for deliverance from Google. Given them a chance, they will start praying with Google mantra, if it gives them a few bucks..born beggars and slaves

May be that these lowly creatures are doing this secretively. I think I know how to do it from my OWN computer without anyone knowing it; but the mere thought of selling one’s morality for some petty cash, prevents me from doing it. Earning is one thing and begging another.

Made for a good read. I knew about this click-exchange circle, and some people, who’re *really* careful and smart, can make the most use out of these click exchanges. Where most people lose out is that they see their income, say few dollars for a low amount of clicks, they become more greedy, and ask for more clicks from others. And it’s pure madness if you get umpteen clicks from a site which is not well known, no PR, etc. And bam! They get banned.

I think google’s adsense program should not accept small/new publishers for their program. They should have a strong filtered criteria for the same.

That is where the problem lies. If the application part is so easy that anyone can join it will include the “fraud” chunk of the community.

The percentage of google users in india are high so does the fraud clickers thanks to those people selling ebooks about making money online.

Everyone and every country people doing this scam, NOt only india(ns)

These things have been happening since the start of the adsense. Its not new and Its not just happening in india it happens everywhere. There are a lot of stuff that happens in U.S itself.Its just that they do some high quality stuff .
These things are easily traceable and thats why most of these account get banned. This is not a real threat to adsense . But what about those High quality scripts that just sucks out the traffic from the search engine and generate untraceable fake clicks. I think thats the real threat to advertisers today.There is a lot of high quality stuff going on the net that is totally untraceable. This is nothing compared to that.

People interested in making quick bucks tend to click their own ads and at their own peril. Instead of clicking their own ad, they should try to improve the contents, bring more traffic and then make big money legally. Google is too smart to catch the fraudster soon…

I have been involved in this :) …and many of my accouns got banned .i even made few bucks but now i have learned SEO .

click exchange group people are so desperate that they can even ask their street dogs and cats for click exchange lol .

This is what going all over India not just few cities. Everyone wants to get rich quick but when there is nothing such thing to get rich quick I don’t understand why educated people caught in this type of fake programs.

Hehe these guys will have to be really smart to outsmart google. The police will have to intervene and have these groups bustd. The last thing we want is large groups with sophisticated know-how.

In affiliate marketing new tricks have evolved to impress google. If 1,2.. are sites and x>y “means x links to y”,
in the past it was 1>2 and 2>1 . But google gives such reciprocal links lower ranks. Now new strategies like 3 way links have come 1>2 2>3 3>1

Similarly, if these groups are allowed to become large, they may evolve “3 way” clicks when reciprocal clicks are not profitable.

I also know the very concept as I got almost caught in one such.But later on when I took on blogging properly I wanted to take a revenge on them. I am student only & very new to this blogger’s arena. But as you are well-established please bring this matter to light & let Google take some serious actions on them. If this tiny one can be of any help, I’m ready.
Thanks for your concern.

I really don’t think that these click frauds are only done in India. I have seen many people, specially from USA and UK, who have groups to click on Google adds.
This is a very wide network which had been very wisely setup and start in from the click fraud and ends in an genuine site sale.

whatever that ad is showing might attract less than 25 people .. and even if they click among themselves.. an average person knowing about adsense would know that it would take thousands of visitors everyday to earn!!.. so either the bottom line is either those people giving ad’s are stupid or people who are clicking the AD’s are stupid or those people who believe in such click fraud in india are stupids………..i think there might be few non-technical people unknowingly try out this!!..that’s what my guess is!!.. google is smart enough to know everything (they r on email, google search, google toolbar,blogspot, picasa ..and lastly google ads..so its anyway easy for them to monitor you)

Well google should be able to tell these groups easily since it will stand out more…I mean think about it someone makes a crappy site in 10 minutes joins adsense and next day they are getting thousands of people on their site with almost everyone clicking…Google must be retarted not to notice unless they are cool with it, since they make money out of it too…

Amit, I gree with you that indian Market is deeply involve in adsesne fraud but I f we will talk about the over all cpc fraud, I think chineese are the leading one. There are also many companies working with same criteria in pakistan.

I also find such companies in Pakistan. They also offer same click jobs openly in newspaper. They showed people fake dreams of earning money for a better life but in the end lways only one dream come true and that is there own dream to be rich, poor people always remain poor.