How I got paid $250 for reporting an Adsense Cheater!

[parasite1526]

The point wasn't "I have a tool that made me $250!"


I thought that when I first read your post. People here are not your average forum users. You really have to earn your reputation here... literally.

The first week I posted here I was like -70 in the hole =P


Now personally I think what your doing is pretty narcish and if your trying to justify it with money... well... most here will not be impressed with a 250$ check for so much work.

[parasite1526]

What is the big deal? I love when scammers get shut down...it means more money for me hopefully if this scammer was in my niche.

Just because he got rewarded financially makes everyone want to beat the $250 out of the guy.

Granted he only has 91 posts, but still...

[parasite1526]

What is the big deal? I love when scammers get shut down...it means more money for me hopefully if this scammer was in my niche.

Just because he got rewarded financially makes everyone want to beat the $250 out of the guy.

Granted he only has 91 posts, but still...

I understand what your saying... When I first read it I figured it was some spammer wanting to sell his software though.

I mean I can give myself a amazon gift cert =P

[parasite1526]

I thought that when I first read your post. People here are not your average forum users. You really have to earn your reputation here... literally.

The first week I posted here I was like -70 in the hole =P


Now personally I think what your doing is pretty narcish and if your trying to justify it with money... well... most here will not be impressed with a 250$ check for so much work.


You will still have negative rep if you didn't create all those shill accounts with proxies and rate yourself positive. I know your game shoemoney! You can't fool me.

Also if it reads like a sales pitch...then it is a sales pitch. If doing the right thing is the reward then do the right thing and offer your software for free.

[parasite1526]

You will still have negative rep if you didn't create all those shill accounts with proxies and rate yourself positive. I know your game shoemoney! You can't fool me.
Shoemoney, I think you're being called out... This town ain't big enough for the two of ya's....

[parasite1526]

The software has nothing to do with this. I'm sorry I even brought it up. The main purpose of the software isn't even to use it to report Adsense cheaters...

If I had just said "I used some software I created" and didn't add the link, the next post would have been someone asking "What software is it?" and I would have had to post the link any way.

Oh well.

The whole point is this... you can do something about Adsense cheaters. Everyone always complains that Google doesn't do anything. Well we were only half right... they don't do anything unless it's the sponsor complaining.

[parasite1526]

I didn't see this as a software ad. You aren't going to get a check from an advertiser every time you are out trying to stop fraud - and if this story is any indication, you'd have to find an advertiser who spent several hundred thousand a month to get $250 - not a super likely scenario.

Turning in the fraud monger's and getting their accounts suspended is a good thing. If someone really wants to reward you it (and it certainly won't be every time), then that's just plain nice of them.

If a bunch of people start trying to turn in fraudsters as a result of this story, then I say great! There have been times when I spent significant money on adwords and now I will be more careful and spend a lot less on adsense based ads (as opposed to search results). The better Google's fraud prevention reputation is, the more revenue adsense based ads will generate.

[parasite1526]

The whole point is this... you can do something about Adsense cheaters. Everyone always complains that Google doesn't do anything. Well we were only half right... they don't do anything unless it's the sponsor complaining.

How did you know that? On this particular situations? Or there is more like this?


You made a weapon but it is in wrong hands or it is used in wrong way.

And what you talking "this is not about money"? Your thread is called "How I got paid $250 for reporting an Adsense Cheater!"
You didn`t called thread "I made a good thing for publishers and for all people in the world"

[parasite1526]

How did you know that? On this particular situations? Or there is more like this?
Have you ever tried reporting an Adsense cheater? There are a few posts here at DP where people have complained that they reported sites to Google and nothing ever happened.

In this case, I emailed Google multiple times over the span of a couple weeks and nothing happened. And this kid was blantantly asking his friends to click on his ads.

You made a weapon but it is in wrong hands or it is used in wrong way.
I don't think I made a weapon... I think I used my head and figured a better way to report Adsense cheaters.

And how can it be used in the wrong way? If you're cheating Adsense, and you get reported... oh well.

If you're not doing anything wrong, and you get reported... nothing is going to happen.

And what you talking "this is not about money"? Your thread is called "How I got paid $250 for reporting an Adsense Cheater!"[/B]
You didn`t called thread "I made a good thing for publishers and for all people in the world"

I doubt as many people would have read a post with that title... that's why I picked this as my title.

And one more time... this isn't about the software program. This is about a tactic people can use if they want something done about an Adsense cheater.

[rooper20120]

No... I created software to list sponsors for whatever keyword you enter.

when i type keywords into the google search engine i see the adwords ads presented with the search results, so i already know who is paying for the ads... i must be missing something obvious.

beyond that, you titled this thread "How I got paid $250 for reporting an Adsense Cheater!", which doesn't sound at all like your comment above... i think that your software has a bit of an identity crisis