Reporting What I think is a TOS violation?

[Mahoney]

I just recieved an email from a site prompting me to click on the google ads. Im reporting this because I think this is wrong and he is cheating people out of there money. With idiots like this Adsense will die out quickly and we dont want that to happen.

EMAIL:
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[edited by: Jenstar at 12:30 am (utc) on Feb. 21, 2005]
[edit reason] No email quotes please, as per TOS [/edit]

[Jenstar]

You can always report publishers to the AdSense team and they will look into it. He says the same thing on his site as well. Interesting that he is asking people to click only once, I suppose to get around it being possibly flagged for multiple clicks from one IP.

You can report any publisher to Google by either emailing AdSense support, or clicking the Ads by Google from the page in question.

[diamondgrl]

Please report it.

[tallguy]

I Don't think anybody will risk his account that way. Maybe competitor did it?

[tallguy]

OOps I saw this later...."He says the same thing on his site as well. "

[diamondgrl]

tallguy,

Sorry to say but violating TOS for Adsense is rampant. I have reported more than a dozen cheaters myself.

[Never_again]

Sorry to say but violating TOS for Adsense is rampant.

I agree. Just do a Google search on the phase "click on the Google ads" and you get over 19,000 returns. Certainly not all of these are violations of the AdSense TOS (e.g., forum like WW discussing the topic), but if you check out a few of the site, you will see many that encourage the clicking of Google ads.

Also begs the question of why Google isn't doing simple searches like this to locate violators. I’m assuming (correctly or incorrectly) that they aren’t since there are so many returns.