What do you think of this email someone got?

Hello,

I got your email address from your site by Google search, while being interested in Adsense. At present you have 12 Adsense advertisements on your site. I have an offer for you. Which is that I am capable of giving you 1000+ different traffic to your site per day - and all of them would click on all the Adsense advertisements. For all these clicks you would be able to earn a good amount per day. My offer is that I would give you that 1000+ different traffic to your site in exchange of 50% of earnings of their total clicks. If you are interested, please let me know.

Thanking you

Tsk tsk...

How on earth is it possible to send 1000 visitors to other site, and guarantee that all of them will click all the ads? nonsense. And his english is bad, he probably did not understand TOS lol

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I have been in E comm for more then 8 years and can tell you this is one of the reasons why merchants who are "smart" would only engage in traffic generating media which pays off of a CPA (cost per aquisition) NOT a CPC or CPM.

This is not a surprise...

obvious scam.. why doenst he make a simple site and do that to himself??

because he know he wouldnt be able to market it and this way he'll probably get 50% of all your adsense earnings whether his users click... All though any TOS he makes up wouldnt hold up in a court as this is against googles TOS ... so i dunno what i'm talking about... ignore me i need sleep...

Very nice indeed. How is this guy going to control your AdSense income so that you don't fool him for a hundred dollars?

you should just say yes, and dont give him anymoney, that way, the scammer becomes the scammee! or w/e

Originally Posted by mhbernheim

you should just say yes, and dont give him anymoney, that way, the scammer becomes the scammee! or w/e

And about two weeks later your adsense account gets cancelled and you lose everything.

Originally Posted by dvduval

What do you think of this email someone got?

Sounds like to me that the person is using some sort of automated clicker. They are software programs that send out thousands of clicks to 1 or more different URL's through a chain of proxy servers. If AdSense accepts proxy traffic, I'm sure they only allow a certain percentage. This way, a person finds someone already getting good, real traffic and then makes this offer to you thinking he/she won't get caught because your normal traffic keeps the amount of proxy traffic under a certain percentage.

Ask yourself this. If this person can generate this traffic and guaranteed hits, why on Earth would'nt he just do it himself? Why would this person need you? I'd pass if I were you.

In case the people here would fall for this, which I doubt...here is an interesting article on "clickers":

Army Of Clickers

OMG, that's like extreme frauds. So, I guess CPC rate is also no longer that much helpful for the business owners who wishes to advertise their business in a CPC basis.

i can get you as many clicks as I can myself do in one day for 1000$....clickity clickity

This is a scam and should be reported to Adsense. It looks as if he will probably get his friends to click or something, which will be incentized and if everything went wrong he wouldn't really matter that much as it will be your account getting closed and not his.

Isn't it hard to detect this kind of actions?

Google is now being sued for click fraud....

Nice deal... until the Adsense disabled email.

This is the world of internet scam.