I had a friend recently try to run a proxy and use adsense ads with a program he made to generate hits. It was working awesome and he made $25 in one day, but then 2 days later, google emailed him stated they they knew what he was doing, and they closes his acccount and took away all money made. Now anytime my friend trys to sign up for google adsense for toher sites, he is denyed. HE cant even sign up for adwords! So remember guys, google is not stupid, if you cheat they will find you! LAter...
Ummm I'm kinda wondering what he had expected to happen. If you try to cheat the system, you will lose. Google has done this time and time again -- they know what they are doing. He should have expected to be terminated if he had even thought that he might be able to get away with it.
He lost money he earned or he lost money he stole? Google will beat you each and every time. They have aggregate data from millions of users and their browsing patterns. People don't browse different from one another. Lets say he used a proxy to visit his sites and ONLY clicked his ads and only looked at his one page -- would you question 10 different users only visiting one site and only clicking links and not sticking around the advertisers' sites? You can't beat Google, and as a real content creator I am thankful for that. As Google destroys and declines the false websites' incomes, real web content writers will earn more for their hard work. In 2006 we'll see thouasnds of complaints here -- all the made-for-adsense sites will start losing income, all the scraper sites, too. Google has millions (billions) of facts on who runs a real site and who runs a fake site. When friends ask me about my site I specifically ask them to stay away from any advertising and don't click anything -- I don't need advertisers to pay for my friends and family. Advertisers are keeping the Internet growing, why would you want to steal from other people who might be just like you???
Or, to put it a different way, Google is as smart as everybody. Their users teach Google through the search patterns.