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I don't know if this is also against TOS, but above his ads he put Google Ads doesn't say like Advertisment which is not allowed, but means the same thing wouldn't you think?
By cheating advertisers, he is taking money from honest publishers who would earn that money honest way.
Send your email to adsense-abuse@google.com
How long does it typically take for them to cancel a google account doing these kinda things against TOS?
alas, very long.
A lot of peope complain about this...
But it got me worried. It would be so easy for someone to mount a click attack, something small - not huge, just a little, follow it up with an email to google adsense saying look at this email (faked of course) from the "admin" of the site - 'Look, I bet they had people clicking on their ads'. Google checks, sees evidence of click fraud, assumes the email forwarded along was legitimate, and boom, adsense ban, competition gone and, more likely than not, theres no damn way to do a thing about it.
It's so basic, yet so simple and effective, and good luck proving you never sent the email and the click throughs were not ones you requested.
This is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.
if an email from someone is enough to get them banned from adsense, wouldn't uhm, be very very easy to eliminate competition this way?
That's the thing.
An email from someone is not enough to get someone banned from adsense.
You can email all you want, that doesn't mean that you're going to get someone banned from Adsense.
Only Google decides who is banned and who stays.
An email/report to Adsense only sends them a note saying that there might be a violation on a particular site that they should check out and then Google decides what action they want to take (whether it be a simple warning or a deactivation of the account).
So, when Google reviews this email AND sees that the same day several people clicked on 30 ads, whereas no one had ever done that before in the entire history of that publisher's account... I see them getting banned.
Don't forget, Google has a staff of PhD statisticians. They can figure out plenty of things with pretty good certainty that you might not think they could simply because the observed activities are statistically different from what would be expected. If they are SO statistically different that there is virtually no chance that they could have happened randomly, Google will know what is going on.
