Oregon company kills Portland clickfraud
December 14, 2004A very interesting cautionary tale in Eight Months of Click Fraud in Oregon, in which an online marketer found repeated ad clicks originating from a Portland IP.
According to the article at Clickz, the extra clicks amounted to clickfraud costing the Oregon company around $300 per month. So they went in search of a solution, and came up with www.whoslclickingwho.com:
For $30 dollars a month, WhosClickingWho allowed Hendison to get more data on the suspect IP address and send a customized pop-up window to the person behind it when he or she clicked on his ad. The message, which Hendison wrote, read, “Stop, you weasel! I know who you are and have reported you to the proper authorities.”
“I never got another click from that address afterward,” Hendison said.