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	<title>Comments on: Bahama Botnet Hurts Google, Too</title>
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		<title>By: Bill Fallon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Fallon</dc:creator>
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		<description>Matt:   

Can you say more about how someone renting a botnet would generate (illicit) revenue through click-fraud?    

I understand how a botnet could be used (and highly effective) to generate fraudulent clicks, and I understand how fraudulent clicks create a problem for an advertiser or a pay-per-click advertising company.   I also have a reasonably good understanding of the more well known things botnets are used for.

So I&#039;m the guy somewhere in Eastern Europe, I pay my friend to have his botnet run up tens of thousands of fraudulent clicks on some unsuspecting merchant&#039;s google ad - how do I generate income from having that done?</description>
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<p>Can you say more about how someone renting a botnet would generate (illicit) revenue through click-fraud?    </p>
<p>I understand how a botnet could be used (and highly effective) to generate fraudulent clicks, and I understand how fraudulent clicks create a problem for an advertiser or a pay-per-click advertising company.   I also have a reasonably good understanding of the more well known things botnets are used for.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m the guy somewhere in Eastern Europe, I pay my friend to have his botnet run up tens of thousands of fraudulent clicks on some unsuspecting merchant&#8217;s google ad &#8211; how do I generate income from having that done?</p>
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