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Updated: the whole adwords">fraud story.
I guess PPC fraud starts to become a real topic nowadays, as slowly engines start to admit the real percentage of fraud in their system. Any adwords advertiser has fraud concerns, as fraud can develop in lack of reaching the online customer and to budget exhaustion. Somehow this mistrust-market does not attract me, so I'll just share my personal experience with it.

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The Google Click Quality Team replied, 8 days after submitting the complaint. They investigated the issue and it seems that I was right in my appreciations. I was receiving invalid clicks on my keywords.

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Updated: the whole adwords">fraud story.
I sent the full complaint email on Friday, letting them know about the click fraud problem. Probably moved into a higher priority queue than regular customer support stuff, their reply came back the same day. They are investigating this issue and will let me know as soon as they have more information about this.

We are currently working as quickly as we can to
investigate this issue. As soon as we have more information for you, we
will email you again. We appreciate your patience.

I hope the Google Click Quality team will investigate this soon enough. I'll let you know how this stuff works out. Meanwhile, I disabled all Content Network matches from Adwords, because it seems that there the most faked clicks happened.

Updated: the whole adwords">fraud story.
I really wonder why Google, Overture and the kind don’t reveal what is the exact amount of fraud clicks in their Adwords types of programs. The percentage must be huge, and probably it would discourage some guys from continuing their PPC campaigns. However transparency would help building up the idea of a healthy business. But let me stop this blabla and get to the real issue.

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