Adwords Fraud

New to these online advertising world. I have a concern. With adwords, why could someone ( competitors ) not use one of these proxy/isp sites that change your ISP and click on your ad until it depletes your funds in your adwords account?

google makes billions of $ a year, of which 99% comes from adwords
they have protections in place to prevent this kind of thing.
they look at more than your IP, they look at your OS, your browser, even your screen resolution

Does the URL that links to your advertisement change?
Couldn't someone send junk traffic to the URL and deplete it that way?

no, your url is what you set it to in the advert, doesn't change
i dont know of anything that can send "fake" traffic to an advert

i really wouldnt worry, i have been advertising online for years and have never had any issues with adwords. you obviously have a lot of enemies

I've had some major issues with clickfraud on Adwords and you just have to take it as a cost of doing business.

You can send them logs of the traffic that you think is fake, they'll review it and refund you for those clicks if they agree that it's click fraud. However most click fraud is generally short lived; you can either wait it out until the person gets tired of trying to run up your click costs, or pause that campaign and move to another niche for a while.

I've read claims of 10-20% of clicks being fraudulent and I would agree with that for the most part. Sometimes you can step on someone's toes in a small niche it can be even more.

Google claims to be getting on top of the click fraud problem but they're also not that motivated to, because in most cases they are getting paid for the clicks. They care about surfers - they don't really give a shit about advertisers.

You just gotta keep an eagle eye on your conversions - fraud or not, it just boils down to money in vs money out.

Hmmm...
Why do these auto posting softwares like CLAD GENIUS work than on CL? Due to CL not having the money as Google does to prevent this I assume?

emdagenais said:

Hmmm...
Why do these auto posting softwares like CLAD GENIUS work than on CL? Due to CL not having the money as Google does to prevent this I assume?

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What does CL and CLAD Genius have to do with Adwords? LOL

Because the orginal response was stating that Google looks at all kinds of things to prevent fraud. My wonder was than why can't CL do the same to prevent the automated software from working if it is looking at IP's, your OS.....

emdagenais said:

New to these online advertising world. I have a concern. With adwords, why could someone ( competitors ) not use one of these proxy/isp sites that change your ISP and click on your ad until it depletes your funds in your adwords account?

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How to find click fraud service?

Paul K said:

How to find click fraud service?

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Click fraud service can at the most give you detailed analytics about the fraudulent clicks if you share some data with them. However, they cannot do anything further about it. Contact Google Ads support & also keep adding those IP ranges in the respective campaign's "IP exclusion" list in campaign settings.
Those who do click fraud do not last long, as they want to dominate just for a while. It is never a sustainable long term strategy.