Click Fraud Using iFrames?
I was searching online for a solution on an issue with my laptop when I came across a thread at http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=129522. At the time I was viewing it, I was looking at the SE friendly version because I was coming from Google. I noticed that all the posts by mtor had two iframes in them. The properties were set so that the frame was invisible in the browser, but it loads pages that appear to be clicks for advertisements. Isn't this click fraud? I contact the website several weeks ago, and they have done nothing that I can see. This is why I will never have an AdWords or similar campaign.
webwiz posted this at 21:40 — 12th October 2007.
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I know nothing about click fraud or how that works. But one way of transmitting data to and from a web page via AJAX uses a hidden iFrame. No idea if that was the case you came across, but thought I'd mention it.
Cordially, David
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delete from internet where user_agent="MSIE" and version < 8;
JeevesBond posted this at 18:10 — 13th October 2007.
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I don't know much about these things but yes pr0gr4mm3r that looks like click-fraud to me. If you were so inclined you could report them to whoever is serving their ads and they'll investigate.
iframe height=1 width=0 -- highly suspicious!
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