Hello, It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on your Google ads, posing a financial risk to our AdWords advertisers. Please note that any activity that may artificially inflate an advertiser's costs or a publisher's earnings is strictly prohibited by our programme policies. We understand that you may want more information about the activity we detected. However, because we have a need to protect our proprietary detection systems, we are unable to provide our publishers with any details about their account activity, including any web pages or users that may have been involved. Thank you for your understanding. We recommend reviewing these references to learn more about invalid click activity and other activities that could endanger your account standing: http://www.google.com/adsense/policies http://www.google.com/adsense/terms http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=8426 Please note that because we credit advertisers for any invalid activity we detect, we may adjust your account earnings for any days during which invalid clicks occurred. If you were clicking your ads out of interest or to see who was advertising on your site, please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is strictly prohibited by our program policies. Instead, we suggest using the AdSense preview tool as an alternative. This tool will allow you to check the destination of ads on your page without the risk of generating invalid clicks. For more information, please visit our Help Centre at https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/topic.py?topic=160. Lastly, please note that if we continue to detect invalid clicks on your Google ads, we may take further action on your account in order to protect our advertisers' interests. Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, The Google AdSense Team
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I'll take your words for it since the reward (few $) vs risk (banned) is not worth. I'll just tell my wife to click. Just kidding!!!!
If it is even close to being wrong you can get banned. I got a notification of an invalid link last year and the only thing I can figure happened was I visited my website on a public computer and someone found it in the history and clicked on a google ad. I know I'm reaching but I did get a warning and not banned. I am very careful to not click on my own ads now.