Comments on: New Click Fraud Lawsuit Claim Form - Ask.com

By: Ask.com Sued For Failure To Prevent Click Fraud! » PageTraffic Blog

Ask.com Sued For Failure To Prevent Click Fraud! » PageTraffic Blog — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:43:00 +0000

[...] Via: AskSettlement, Search Commander [...]

By: Search Engine Marketing

Search Engine Marketing — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:43:27 +0000

I do not think that this is a scam email. It could really be a lawsuit against Click Fraud.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:29 +0000

Yeah, I saw the proxied domain info too, then read it on Sphinn - http://sphinn.com/story/21074

I actually do suspect that it’s a scam, but the poster there was right, it’s not a very good one…

By: AJH

AJH — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:22:21 +0000

I got the same notice. I find it strange that they would notify via email. Email doesn’t strike me as an “official notification”.

Naturally, they want your Ask.com account number.

If you do a WhoIs for the AskSettlement.com domain name that they direct you to, you will see that it’s got a private registration through “Domains By Proxy”. What law firm would do that? You would think that they would want you to find them.

I think it’s a scam. They already have your email address and other information that is public about your firm. Armed your account number, all it would take is a call to ASK requesting an email address and password change.

My click fraud losses weren’t substantial, so this goes to file-13.

By: bmt

bmt — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:27:59 +0000

I got a same email from Ask.com but I’ve never put my ads on Ask.com. However, I did put my ads on “google+search network” and sometime I see my ads appears on Ask.com.