July 18, 2006 | Tuesday

Click pirates attack text advertisers for profit

By Jackie Danicki - Blogger  in Search Expertise |Click Fraud

Blogger Peter Da Vanzo has uncovered a ridiculously stupid - and quite damaging - click fraud recruitment program which, as Search Engine Watch’s Barry Schwartz puts it, makes a mockery of the text ad space. The recruiters find people to click on their ads, then they split the revenue. A telling quotation from the thread linked above:

Let’s steal from the people with a lot of money, not ourselves

Why steal from anyone? 

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