click fraud case studies update informationAd Tracker Reviews has conducted several case studies on different click fraud incidents. Click fraud is more rampant than ever each case study shows exactly what has happened. We have conducted heavy research on five different click fraud case studies and have provided the information below. Feel free to learn about what has happened in the recently and in the past all five are famous click fraud cases.

Clickbot.A.
Clickbot.A is a piece of software that could infect your computer and use your computer to create click fraud. Clickbot.A was targeted at Internet Explorer users and the impact of Clickbot.A was felt across the internet.

Auction Experts International
Auction Experts International setup a Google Adsense account and was not very subtle or clever with hiding what they were doing. They paid people to click on their ads over and over again the search engine found out about what was going on and prevented all future click fraud attempts.

Facebook
Facebook had a huge problem across the board and had several hundred upset advertisers. Fraudsters attacked Facebook and used a very simple method to create wealth using third world countries.

FFsearcher
FFSearcher is a Trojan which will lock into your computer and every time you do a Google search the affiliate is credited as if you were searching through the actual affiliate search. This piece of software was very harmful and has been very pricey for Google.

Google Clique
2004 was the year of Google Clique which was developed by Michael Anthony which could be used to help scammers defraud Google’s Adsense program by again automatically clicking on the ads. He actually tried to blackmail Google by contacting them directly and letting them know what he could do.

We hope that the case studies were helpful to you and will aid in helping you prevent click fraud. We will continue to provide up to date information to ensure that you will always be able to have the best information available.

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