Of course his ultimate purpose is to get me banned by Google Adsense, In fact he has been doing this for few days already and after discussing this issue with a adsense guru, he advised me to install this tracker from http://www.adsensedetective.com to trace the culprit. Sure enough this tracker does wonders in tracking adsense saboteur in progress.
As far as I know, this is the only adsense tracker for blogspot.com, bloggers with own hosting can use it as well but since blogspot do not allow us to host any php files this is the only alternative for us bloggers who is using blogspot.com
Adsense Detective the Adsense clicks tracker
This morning when i login to my Google adsense account, this is what i saw :
599 clicks!!! only a small fraction of those clicks were legit, others are all done by this ip : 60.50.200.49, in fact for the past 2 days this ip remained the same, therefore i concluded that this user might still be using the same ip as i blog about this issue.I took a few screenshots from my adsensedetective.com account and you can see from here, there were multiple clicks from the same ip 60.50.200.49
Click on the above image to enlarge itThe above report is for the 20th October 2006, this is only part of the report ... the actual one were too long to be posted here.
Click on the above image to enlarge itThe above screenshot were taken today, showing all the sabotage clicks for 21st October 2006 showing in details time and date and url of the adsense click sabotage.
This ip were further confirmed by my stats counter, showing the same ip login over a period of time as shown in the picture below.
With all these supporting evidences I gathered, I lodge a Adsense sabotage report with Google Adsense team and also wrote to TMnet about this.
This is part of the reply I got from Tmnet Streamyx :
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.
Referring to this matter, we need your cooperation to provide us with the evidence/proof as you said that you have been threatened and sabotage. Instead, we need you to forward to us the full header or system log that consists of IP address, date, time and time zone of the incident mentioned. Without these information, we will be unable to discern and find the actual abuser.
We also would like to suggest you to lodge a proper police report as you have been threatened and sabotage as mentioned.
I seriously do not understand why some people can stoop so low as to sabotage the income of a person who is blogging to entertain?
Those who would like to know more on how to protect yourself or how to track Adsense sabotage feel free to write to me, for those who never been sabotage before ... it dont hurt you to learn also.
Will update this post once i got more feedback from Google adsense and Tmnet. I am also considering the possibilities to lodge a police report, if that is what i need to do to protect myself.
UPDATE : 22nd October 2006
Time : 1pm
The saboteur must have read my post and decided to switch his dynamic TMnet Streamyx ip thinking he could get away with this if he is using a different ip. His latest ip was 60.51.122.92 but at the time of this article he is no longer online. He probably switched his ip again after he clicked on my ads.
There is something i dont understand though, I disabled all my ads already ... but how come he is still able to click on it? Hes is loading the pages in his cookies or what?
The saboteur switched ip to 60.51.122.92, begin clicking on my ads from 01:03pm until 01:37pm a total of 22 clicks. More details below :
Screenshot from adsense account showing 22 clicks
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Stats counter showing the IP of that SOB, coming in to sabotage me again.Of course Tmnet and Adsense had been informed of this sabotage already. I will keep updating this post with all the evidences if the attack continues.
Time : 3pm
Latest attack started at 3:29pm 22 Oct 2006. Done by the same ip 60.51.122.92 I guessed he did not changed his ip, instead he blocked his most of his ports maybe? that explains why I cant ping him?
Screenshots of adsense detective showing details of the attack
screenshots of statscounter showing the login information of such an IPTime : 4pm
Latest attack at 4:56pm by Streamyx Ip no. 60.51.122.92
adsensedetective showing this ip 60.51.122.92 the time actually corresponse to the one reported in statscounter. I will monitor closely and keep updating this post.
aduii i think people jealous that u're among the richest bloggers in malaysia
ReplyDeleteu see, you become so popular that so many ppl want to sabotage u.
ReplyDeletetake care lah! me? i no problem as i had not earn a dollar yet from adsense
hmmm ... what can you do to prevent stuff like this ar?
ReplyDeleteok la, actually it was me la, i jeles you getting too much from adsense, so i click kau ur adsense la ...
i installed an automated tool, which will go to your site and click automatically wan ...
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Why ppl sabotage someone who is blogging to entertain? The same reason why jerks scratch your car or throw stone and then hide their hand. Do us a favor. When this guy is arrested, pls expose him for who he is.
ReplyDeletethat barger must be damn free sit in front of the computer clicking on the adsense only. get a life man.
ReplyDeleteok wingz, i demand a USD100 from you now, so i will stop clicking ur adsense, transfer to me via paypal, DO NOT GO TO THE POLICE, or i will take extreme measure, i will triple the clicking rate ...
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***click click click ....
wah earl-ku how can you steal my rice bowl. when you need a non-KL IP address you let me know. I am known as fast clicker, you know.. LOL
ReplyDeleteyea mate, did u send an email to adsense support? anyways, hope u get that prick :)
ReplyDeleteWhoa, that's some scary shit. Strange that it's happening to you and not those much-maligned 'pro bloggers'.
ReplyDeletebecause they thought by sabotaging you your blog would have to be shut down. then they'll jump at the opportunity to claim ur blogname and do some stupid thing to flame u. they thought like tt overnight can become millionaire. so kuku
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side, you know you're femes and people want to make your life difficult.
ReplyDeleteSo there's also a reason to be happy about this!
It's been a long time I last seen the term "problogger" ledi! LoL...
ReplyDeletenolah.. that barger just don't like pat leong kum's face!
ReplyDeleteanyawy, seriously, I think that barger really sick or smoething lah.
Alamak!! Bro, kena sabotage again? See, you so fehmes ma!!
ReplyDeleteprice of being famous dude.....spam the bugger lar
ReplyDeleteI think you should contact the AdSense Team as soon as possible, or they might disable your account. There is a good open source script to track your AdSense clicks, http://adlogger.org
ReplyDeleteYou can set how many times that can be clicked by one IP. It's quite useful.
kanineh! musim raya raya nie buat kacau... dosa tu....
ReplyDeleteanyway, happy diwali and selamat hari raya! maaf zahir dan batin~!
actually it's me who click on the you, i was offended by one of your post. By now you should know..................................................................................that i am bluffing you. Siao Arrr, who on earth eat full nothing to do keep on click on advertisement! Ask him go jump river lahhhhhhhhhhh
ReplyDeleteWell, theoretically, the ad doesn't need to be showed to be 'clicked'. The ads consists of a URL with your publisher id embedded inside. It points to google's ad page which tracks the click and forwards you to the actual site. So it doesn't matter whether you are showing the ads or not. All that is needed is the advertisement URL. Copy the address and paste it in the browser URL bar. Or use a script to keep loading the same page over and over again. Or embed your advertisement in an offline html and load that page. One way or the other, doesn't really matter.
ReplyDeleteEh, brader, is this issue resolved? So, what is the outcome? I can't sleep, eat or shit after reading this. If it happens to you, it could happen to just anyone. I already got it before and I know your pains. Errm..on second thought, it is good I can't eat 'cos I will lose a few pounds.
ReplyDeleteSend him some virus or something!
ReplyDeleteimportant to note that people can copy your adsense code with your ID.. post it on any server they want and click away at it.. make sure you enable the protection in adsense that restricts the sites that can host your code.
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