Looking for proof of click fraud?
By Richard Koman - March 2, 2005
Richard Lusk, commenting on a post at John Batelle's Searchblog, suggests googling for "earn rupees". More jobs lost to outsourcing.
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Hi,
Being located in India, I have checked out these 'schemes' and let me assure you, Google AdSense is very safe.
I had asked many operators of such schemes for demo and most the sites that you are supposed to visit are shoddily made B grade sites, and most of them had the TrafficSwarm / BlogExplosion type model wherein you have to stay at certain pages for certain time.
There were such checks to make sure you 'read' the content where you are supposed to give answers on what you just read.
There were also a lots of online polls.
Another important part of this scam is Paypal. All the sites paid you by paypal and what this agents used to do was offer a direct check in rupees at a slightly lower rate then the exchange rate and deduct $3-7 as 'processing fee'.
Nowhere did I ever come upon any AdSense ads in any of the 5 different such operators that I visited.
Secondly, as a webmaster (using AdSense preview tool) I find that 90% of AdSense ads are not shown in India at all.
Posted: March 9, 2005 6:18 AM