Alright guys, I'm coming off of a several day vacation and haven't had a chance to really look at anything lately. For those of you PMing me, I don't have any way of responding to you, unless you include your skype name. I can contact you there. I'll have some more information on test data later Monday most likely. Will keep you guys updated, but here's what I'm thinking:
From my information, the adwords vouchers could be what's flagging accounts and causing "billing information" errors. Two options: learn how to create your own vouchers and make sure to keep all the information consistent, which I'm sure there's guides on in BHW, or randomly try different voucher sellers to find out if some of them work better than others.
Other problems for me personally include a possible hardware ban because I've created so many freaking accounts, but that should likely be taken care of by the VMWare Change.
We'll figure it out.
Yep, this is what I am thinking too: VOUCHER FAULT. From the other point of view, this would be funny from the side of google: I can get a "dirty" voucher from a website which imitates a real agency, so why would they ban a potential customer? Is this a users fault? Nope. I guess they would ban voucher codes instead.
Concerning the hardware... I doubt they can detect your MAC address or any other hardware through the browser. This would be a serious privacy infringement. I did some reading and I am 99% sure that MAC is not the case. Detecting MAC is impossible without any plugins (MAC can be detected using Java, not JavaScript which is enabled in almost every browser). If you are still paranoid about the MAC address - get TMAC (Google this name).
If you guys want to see what information can a website get from you, check out this website: analyze.privacy .net. You will also see, that in order to get your local IP, the website asks your permission to run JAVA (!) - things should be the same with MAC too. Also, you will find a link which will let you check your FLASH cookies an manage them in the site mentioned. But the funny thing is that google Adwords DOES NOT store any flash cookies.
So, it seems like google can not get your MAC, and adwords does not use any flash cookies - two myths dead.
What MIGHT interest Google filter is... The timezone of the country your PC (proxy) is located in and the timezone of your computer: they can compare those. IF you use proxy, these two will usually differ and this is fishy, right? So, I will experiment and set the timezone on my PC to match the proxy.
Another thing you can try is creating false campaigns JUST to get your first ad running. This campaign should match your adwords information (because registering as USA citizen and creating campaign for Russian website might look a bit suspicious right?). After that you pause/delete these and try to get others running.
So, if Google can not trace your MAC, can't detect your flash cookies, can't detect any suspicious information - what CAN they do? If your IP, billing address, website, ad's information fits together, then WHAT ELSE can be wrong? Only two options left: they have an IP blacklist and most of the proxies fall there (I still run a campaign with HMA proxy - strange), they flag the vouchers we buy and this is the fault of sellers.
Let the testing begin: try various voucher sellers and compare their codes; change your computer's time and timezone to match your proxy location and give the right timezone to google when you register; use private proxies, vpns; do not limit yourself to USA only - try creating campaigns and adwords accounts for different countries (if your voucher works with them); try creating ads for little websites you do not even know (since you can try one website only once, creating one each time is pain in the ass); use CCleaner each time and clean cookies before starting your browser.
And let the luck be with you.
P.S. If you plan to launch campaigns for the websites you do not own, try to pick the ones which do not have analytics or adsense (check the website source for this), because google MIGH get interested in the fact that two completely different accounts work with the same website.