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Hiring humans to do ad fraud
Posted July 20, 2004 – 1:31 pm by Yakov Shafranovich in Spam and EmailAn article at ZD Net (via SlashDot) mentions the increased use of humans to perpertate ad fraud:
A growing alternative employs low-cost workers who are hired in China, India and other countries to click on text links and other ads.
A while back I mentioned the use of free porn sites to around reverse Turing tests used for spam. The possibility of hiring cheap employees in other countries have been discussed at the ASRG but this is the first real evidence that this trick has been used for anything.
Globablization … gotta love it.
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