The act of clicking on a competitor's PPC paid ads on the search engines in order to run them through their budget and eliminate them from the listings or just simply to make them spend money on clicks which arent from genuine customers. Click fraud is frowned upon by the search engines and can have legal rammifications for offenders.
a form of theft perpetrated against advertisers who are paying per click for traffic, in which fraudsters may use automated means to click on your ads from spoofed IP addresses over random periods of time.
An attempt to inflate click-through rates through the use of various tactics often involving automated software.
Click fraud, also called pay-per-click fraud, is the practice of artificially generating traffic to advertisers' sites either manually or through the use of automated clicking programs (called hitbots). The advertiser pays for this traffic, which has no potential for generating revenue, however, the scammer receives a percentage of the pay-per-click fees paid by the advertiser.
(Context: computer security) Occurs when someone accesses an URL with no intention of browsing the site, purchasing a product or performing research. Considered fraud against services (such as Google's Adwords) where sites hosting the links are rewarded by visitors clicking on the hosted links. A FAQ on the topic is available here. Full Disclosure Mailing List
When someone clicks on an ad with the sole purpose of driving up the pay-per-click cost.
The deceitful practice of posing as pay-per-click (PPC) traffic for the purpose of costing advertisersâ€(tm) money or helping to generate false revenue by those affiliates serving the ads.
Click fraud is a type of internet crime that occurs in pay per click online advertising when a person, automated script, or computer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser clicking on an ad, for the purpose of generating a charge per click without having actual interest in the target of the ad's link. Click fraud is the subject of some controversy and increasing litigation due to the advertising networks being a key beneficiary of the fraud whether they like it or not.