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Date Posted: 10:45:34 10/04/09 Sun
Author: Workerinternet
Subject: Google Ad Sense and Scam.com

Google Ad Sense is an advertisement service from Google. The web site owner activate an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily make $150,000 per month.

Scam.com is a message board claiming to be informing the public about scams being done by companies or individuals. This web sites have individuals working for them for the sole purpose of targeting companies or individuals in order to generate traffic to the web site (Additionally some posters with connection to scam.com have Google ads in their posts). This method is artificially generating traffic to the web site, this is FRAUD as outlined by Google Ad Sense policy. The higher the traffic, the higher the percentage of individuals that will click onto the Google advertisements.

Additionally, Individuals post copy right information of companies on scam.com; web site owners request from scam.com to remove their copy right information and scam.com refuse. This is also against the policy of the Google Ad Sense program.

If you believe that you are being targeted by individuals on scam.com; simply click the Ads by Google in the bottom right hand corner of the advertisement on the web site. You will be taken to a Google page, click onto: Report a policy violation regarding the site or ads you just saw

File a report and the Google Fraud Department will investigate

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