“Fraudsters know that clicking on a certain ad will create anomalies in the data that will trigger further investigation of their IP addresses, methods, or the targeting of a particular advertiser’s ads.

So they try to ‘even out’ the anomalies by creating more impressions to balance out the clicks, and other attempts to make the fraud seem more ‘real.’ But all this does is dig them in deeper, creating other anomalies.”  But from what I heard on the forums Google is still able to filter out these frauds.  It is very frustrating for those of us that don’t pad our adsense because I see smart-pricing come into effect sometimes and get dismal payouts per click.

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