Adsense - refer a friend Rewards

[nomis5]

I have received an email from Adsense outlining a scheme whereby when you refer a friend to them Adsense will reward you - in money.

The benefits are quite high, 50% of their earnings in the first 30 days.

What surprised me was that they are running this scheme at all. Although I have nothing conclusive, my overall impression was that Adsense was moving away from small publishers, but clearly this is not the case.

[Travis]

Odd indeed. Also, considering how hard this is not to be approved.

Now, this doesn't sound risky for Adsense, because if a publisher doesn't yet have an account at Adsense, there are very few chances it can generate significant earnings during the first 30 days :). A publisher with enough traffic to make money, will obviously already have an Adsense account.

But I bet some will abuse this, and create new accounts, under different names, and refer themselves :)