India's leading technology magazine DIGIT, has had in its November 2007 issue, a serious look at what one Indian security analyst claims is a flaw in Google’s AdSense ! One Person "Earned" $5000 by his own script just by doing nothing.
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Here is how it works ! Naturally we (Digit) cannot tell you how "Arora's Crack" works, but here's what happens. You have a blog. You sign-up for an Adsense account and get it approved and activated. Google Ads will start appearing on you blog. Then if you have Arora's Script, which is a set of automated tasks and commands, you run it on your site and send out emails to people you know, inviting them, to visit not just your blog, but anything which may interest them like YouTube, etc. The people you mail to need not even need to know about the existence of your blog. When they click on your links and watch, say the videos you linked to, Google credits your adsense account. *www.winvistaclub.com/image/gads1.jpg
"This all could be possible with a simple trick ... execute Google's Ad Generator code on server and retrieve all ad links at web server only (with the help of html parser). Then send those Ad links to client and navigate them from client side" says Arora on his blog. In short : The AdSense ads are on your blog, you send links to, say videos, they click and watch that video, and you get paid !
What is important that he claims that he did it in July 2007, and also brought it to the notice of Google. Arora wrote to Google "I would be glad to provide you the complete mechanism, which will take one hour a day, to produce thousand of dollars a month from adsense. I would like to explain this model to any of your representatives". The Incident Response Lead, Google Security Team replied that "We've investigated your claim. At this point, all we can verify is that our automated systems terminated your accounts, as a result of your trying to inflate the clicks. This is exactly how the system is supposed to work. If you supply us with the code and the technical details of the method you mention, we will investigate further".Source
