Click fraud with only a $150 investment?

Here is an interesting customer looking for a programmer to build a click fraud tool (I think):

I need a VERy VERY strong/expert custom click fraud program. This program should work, undetectable and pure random.

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It would be a good project for someone working for Google AdWords/Yahoo Search Marketing or MSN AdCenter to monitor.

Multiple clicker drops in to visit

Just after saying that there wasn't any suspicious activity of late, an AOL visitor appeared to click a few times on the 14th. Google has recorded only one click, so no real harm done.

No click fraud here

This is more of a non-post, only because my tiny PPC account has not noted any click fraud of late. I am not complaining. Perhaps sites that show evidence of a click fraud service tracking code are being avoided by the organised click fraud gangs?

Click fraud company sold for $21M

Litmus Media, which runs a click fraud company called ValidClick is the subject of a Letter of Intent to be bought for $21M by the Think Partnership. Follow the link for details.

Forget Click Fraud, Fix Technical Money Loss

IncrediBill makes an insightful post about the "hysteria" of click fraud and that it is a "dead horse". Be that as it may, he challenges the PPCSEs to fix technical issues such as:

1. Advertiser's site goes offline, so the clicks go nowhere.

2. A network issue leads to dead clicks

3. Accidental ad clicks

Check out his post.

Informal Click Fraud (aka Click Fraud as tip jar)

The blog writer at FrozenNorth.org has posed an interesting variant of click fraud, which he describes as an electronic tip jar. Before AdSense, some web sites used to encourage visitors to click the ads and visit the advertisers but as this contravenes the AdSense ToS, a publisher cannot openly encourage clicks. I don't see such use of AdSense as being any more of a tip jar than, say, its use on any other publisher page.