Read the TOS. They keep your money just like they kept around $300 of mine when I recieved the same email. Words of wisdom!
This is bull*. Again. What is the URL of your website ? Why 1600$ was in your account ? On hold ? I don't buy it. All those threads about banned accounts are not real. Or they owners must have done something. 1600$ in 3 months ? Hey after a lot of work and 18 months i make 100$ a month from travel niche.
Its always a bad idea for any adsense money left in hold. Simply if you get banned that money that you have earned went right down the drain. Sorry for your loss of earnings thru the hard work that you have done now its time to move on and don't put your earnings on hold ever.
His site is http://www.andhrawatch.com/ Obviously got owned for copyrighted content + no content pages.
I see 100s of such sites using Adsense so it should not be a problem. @ topic starter: Make a call to adsense.
THAT WEBSITE SUCKS !!...... many ads all over the place ... NO value to the site ... how in hell can this guy be making money ???
This folks is why you do not hold your payments. You couldve just lost a months maybe $500, instead your out $1600 unless you can sue and win.
If this is indeed his site, he got banned for No Content. You can't place Adsense on sites w/ no content, you need content...ideally Original content. And More content than adspaces. It's that simple, it's in the Adsense terms of service, clearly. Think in terms of value for your website viewer... What are they getting out of your site, besides mainly clicking on an ad to leave or for more information.