6000$ is a lot of money. Google should warn user before banning the account. Maybe a 24 hours notice to fix things. They should deduct the earnings for fraud clicks and pay rest of money, and keep the user banned if they feel like.
I wonder how exactly you could earn that much just advertising on forums though. I participate in like 10 forums from Monday to Friday and barely get 100 visitors a week.
Then they would be paying out a lot more money. IMO, Adsense is a scam. Google pays out a little $$$ here and there to keep things "real", but they are under no obligation to fulfill all payments, and instead it's very easy to just keep taking advertiser's money and not paying the promoters.
just hoping it was google doing a good job. If the someone was promoting clicks on the forum the advertisers are the ones losing.
Sorry to hear about the loss. How were you generating your clicks? Organic? Sporting sites would have good mass appeal. I may try this!
At least they didn't ban your domain. Just open another AdSense account and put the ads on the same domain again.
A lot of the Indian subcontinent ISPs use a single shared IP address, so is there a possibility that google thought they all coming from the same user?
Does this mean that if you don't like someone you can just generate click on your enemies ads, to get him shut down from Google?