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		CyrusL on March 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme (NSFW) (201... This is a major ongoing topic in the ad world. For those interested in the topic, here are two more articles from today on publisher fraud: http://www.adexchanger.com/online-advertising/to-catch-a-bot... http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/meet-most-suspect-publ...

kreilly on March 19, 2013 | [–]

Two other articles today named ad networks that are making money on this type of fraudulent traffic:

http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/19/massive-bot-network-is-dra...

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/meet-most-suspect-publ...

kanzure on March 19, 2013 | [–]

Here's the source of the Chameleon botnet details:

http://www.spider.io/blog/2013/03/chameleon-botnet/

comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5400573

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