Booted from Adsense - don't know why.

[RustyACE]

I've been booted from Google Adsense after earning about $250 bucks or so in the past couple of months.

They claim that I have been clicking on my own ads. Which I have not.

No recourse, just, <paraphrase>"We cannot reveal our algorithm, but we reviewed your account again and confirm that invalid clicks were generated with your account"</paraphrase>

Account closed, end of story, see ya'- next.

I have not clicked on any of my ads. I have emailed them several times and this is all I get above.

Has anyone else experienced this?

$250 isn't much, but it's a big deal when they take about 90 days to pay and then when you are about to get your first check they boot you.

How is it possible for them to confirm that I've been clicking on my ads when I haven't?

Thanks in advance for advice,

Rusty

[edited by: Jenstar at 4:43 pm (utc) on Feb. 11, 2004]
[edit reason] No email quotes as per TOS, thanks! [/edit]

[onfire]

Then again, anything can be challenged and sometimes you can even win.

For sure… in the US you can win money for anything, some of the stories of people winning money for which they were the cause of say an accident where they got injured, or where they were committing a crime and they got hurt & ended up getting money for it HEHEHE what a crazy world.

Must not laugh too loud though as these crazy happenings are creeping there way into the UK legal system, where you can sue and win money even if you’re the baddie locked in prison

[billegal]

Even if the contract is breached, I think Google can only recover money if damaged by the breach. It's hard to imagine proving that whatever was posted here caused damages, but I'll leave it to Google's lawyers to determine what's valuable to Google.