http://kayloo.com/2008/04/28/national-youth-leadership-forum/ I'm in their same position, I can't afford to go either and I've been sent that exact same letter. The reason why I'm asking if that website is breaking any rules is because the owner states, I don't think I will risk the trust between my readers and the trust with my ad network just to go to the forum, so I thought i'd ask before asking people to click on my ads.
If he's asking for ppl to click on ads, that's Click Fraud. Report his ass, he's diminishing the value of the network.
I'm not gonna report him, I'd feel bad doing so cause I can't go either because of the money and it just doesn't seem right to report him and then making him loose all his money.
If he sign up for Adsense, he needs to follow Adsense rules simple as that. Nothing bad about it, by reporting you are ensuring that Adsense have quality publishers and hence quality adverts which in turn will help the rest of the publishers receive better payouts.
a crook is always a crook...he must get a real life and job...clicking things is for....can't tell the word here
You should never be sorry for people who do click fraud. Why? Think on the advertisers perspective. I've done some adwords campaigns, and I'd be pissed if I knew that I'm wasting my money and getting worthless clicks because someone's doing click fraud. I'm sure all adwords advertisers will agree.
wow you reported him? That's gonna suck... I think I'm gonna write some more ebooks and sell them to get some money for the trip. This dude is gonna be pissed when he sees his adsense account lol.
The money won't get refunded. I once got banned by them and my 3 dollars is still sitting there. I didn't commit any fraud at all and I followed their TOS letter by letter.
Come on ppl, it's already been stated that it's against the TOS, no need to imitate a broken record...
Maybe he didn't know? Wouldn't it be better to kindly email him and let him know first? Why ruin a guy's enterprise without giving him the benefit of the doubt first? Innocent until proven guilty.