Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Blog - A Web Scam that Makes $500,000 a Month

A computer scientist discovers a scam that skims such a tiny amount from so many sources that no one has much incentive to shut it down.

A team of experts has uncovered an elaborate, even elegant, scheme to automate click-fraud in a way that allowed its perpetrator to carry on undetected for months. One of the experts involved in the investigation believes that subsequent versions of this scheme might escape notice simply because no one has much incentive to pursue it, even though it appears to have netted its perpetrator millions of dollars.



Source: http://feeds.technologyreview.com/click.phdo?i=f891b871933ab5fc24aab3af893b288c

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