I think I caught some major click fraud

Reported it to Google, Got Canned DMCA response

[AZEvil]

I woke up this morning to find out that traffic showing for my tracking script was double what I should have seen for an entire day. After looking around, I discovered that all of the extra traffic was coming in via direct request and was mostly originating from European/Asian IP addresses. Come to find out, someone has managed to copy my site using one of the various offline browsing tools, changed a few links and adsense code, and appears to be visiting the site through various proxies, etc.

I emailed Google about whatever details I could come up with at that point and got back a response about reporting DMCA violations. The object of my email was not necessarily to report a violation, but to report strong evidence of click fraud going on and bringing it to their attention. Anyone have any ideas on what my next step should be?

I obviously need to take action against the domain owner for copying my site, content, etc. (several hundred pages of good solid content), but I want to see Google take action against the click fraud. This type of fraud causes good publishers to miss out on revenue and I'm tired of seeing it happen. I am also an AdWords advertiser, so it really bugs me to see that Google doesn't appear to want to clean up the contextual advertising network.

[Never_again]

I'd go back to them and let them know that you will file the DMCA, BUT you are reporting the click fraud to them so they can (1) investigate and take action to protect the advertisers, and (2) protect you and your good name from this sordid activity.

[AZEvil]

Okay. I sent a note back to Google with more detail stating that I wasn't contacting them because of the DMCA violation. Hopefully they'll decide to do something. Since the theif forgot to remove my tracking from his page, I can see that he's still going at it this morning. AdSense ads are still showing up and he appears to be hitting his own pages at a rate of 50 times per hour to try not to look suspicious...