Screwing someone with his own Adwords account

[Aveligand]

Screwing someone with his own Adsense account

So I had this really despicable thought that came to mind. Since its easy to get your competitors' (or anyones, for that matter) Adsense Pub-ID, what's stopping anyone from stealing that person's Adsense ID, setting up a dozen websites and purposely conduct some click fraud with a team of Indians behind proxy servers to get that person's account banned from Adsense?

Does google have a framework set up to deal with this?

 

[gkgk11]

Replace adwords with adsense and this post will make (more)sense. Google isn't stupid and the person could always report to google he/she is being clickbombed. I'm sure google has proxy detection by the way....

 

[Aveligand]

Replace adwords with adsense and this post will make (more)sense. Google isn't stupid and the person could always report to google he/she is being clickbombed. I'm sure google has proxy detection by the way....

Yeah, I meant adsense. Thanks for pointing that out.

I know they can always report to Google, but what if the person being clickbombed is running an arbitrage campaign in the first place? That doesn't exactly put him in the big G's good books.

 

[mason]

Yeah, I meant adsense. Thanks for pointing that out.

I know they can always report to Google, but what if the person being clickbombed is running an arbitrage campaign in the first place? That doesn't exactly put him in the big G's good books.

google said it themselves that they're not against arbitrage...

 

[halfpc]

So I had this really despicable thought that came to mind. Since its easy to get your competitors' (or anyones, for that matter) Adsense Pub-ID, what's stopping anyone from stealing that person's Adsense ID, setting up a dozen websites and purposely conduct some click fraud with a team of Indians behind proxy servers to get that person's account banned from Adsense?

Does google have a framework set up to deal with this?

that is basically the kind of knowledge that when you come in possession of, you should not make public, you should keep it quiet.
Perhaps, for the benefits of everyone you could now wipe out the post's content before it gets too many viewing.

 

[Andrew]

This is hardly a big secret. Internet espionage is pretty common, be in DoS attacks, hacking, click fraud, reverse click fraud (basically what is being described here.) Just the same, some people will "SEO" a competitors site using blatantly spammy methods to get them screwed by Google.