Click fraud, if you’re using Adwords or Adsense you must have heard of it by now, Click Fraud it is a real plague, but exactly is click fraud? Adsense is based on pay per click, so whenever a surfer click on a ad on your site you and Google get paid a certain amount of money, when people use click fraud they have multiple ways of doing so.

Some people are building website for the sole purpose of generating income true the Adsense program, with the ways they go about things they get a incredible amount of fraudulent clicks, some of these methods are very simple and some are more sophisticated.

One of the simple tactics scammers use is to hire people from poor countries like India, the Philippines, or other Asian countries, these people will work for a $1- a hour just to click your ads  so you can make money One of the more sophisticated ways to go about click fraud is with a program of script called a hitbot, these programs are 100% automated to click the ads or the banners
The Adsense security isn’t perfect and ironically if you want to you can find the information on how to go about it you can find that information with the Google search engine.

Of course a lot a people get caught because there are patrons to be fund, like that a lot a clicks is coming from one IP address, when Google finds out about it you will get your Adsense account banned and if Google really has a bad day, of let me rephrase that if you have a bad they Google will file charges against you for fraud. And the Google’s pockets for legal fee are deep, really really deep so stay of Google’s bad site.

To prevent this or even to lower the change that fraudsters get caught they use a large number of proxy servers for the purpose to hide from Google while continuing click fraud, proxy server can bb but are not always with Trojan infected computers that can be used for this kind of practice, that is why you should always be careful with what you install online.

Now it is harder for Google to see where the traffic is coming from because of the proxy servers, but Google has some ways to finds out of you are participating in click fraud and as wise as they are they keep that information to themselves.