Thursday, March 30, 2006

California Man Charged in 'Click Fraud' Case

A UPI news snippet, via PhysOrg.com, reports that:

A California man has been charged with using a "click fraud" scheme to chisel the FreeRide Web site out of reward points used to obtain free merchandise.

Allen Tam, 32, of Daly City, allegedly used source code he obtained from his employer to set up a "robot" program that registered scores of clicks on the FreeRide Web site, racking up reward points in the process that were redeemed for products offered by Amazon.com and other Internet retailers.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 3/30/2006 09:10:00 AM

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