click fraud

[ klik-frawd ]

/ ˈklɪk ˌfrɔd /

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noun

the fraudulent practice of clicking many times on an online advertisement to generate the small fee charged to the advertiser per click, thereby harming the advertiser or benefiting the host website: Automated bots are used to commit click fraud.

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Origin of click fraud

First recorded in 2000–05

Words nearby click fraud

clickable, clickbait, click beetle, clicker, clickety-clack, click fraud, clickjacking, clicks-and-mortar, click stop, clickstream, clickthrough

How to use click fraud in a sentence

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice turned herself in to serve a 15-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud.
How a ‘Real Housewife’ Survives Prison: ‘I Don’t See [Teresa Giudice] Having a Cakewalk Here’|Michael Howard|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
So we picked out the song (“Rhiannon,” click here for video), and Deer Tick learned it.
Deer Tick's John McCauley on Ten Years in Rock and Roll|James Joiner|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A click sends a user to a statement, a list of passenger nationalities, emergency call-center numbers, and other information.
The Presumed Crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Is Nothing Like MH370|Lennox Samuels|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Moraca pointed to another form of return fraud, involving gift cards.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks|M.L. Nestel|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Return fraud has been called the invisible heist—or “de-shopping.”
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks|M.L. Nestel|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Edna could hear the whispering voices of dead men and the click of muffled gold.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
If the auctioneer could afterward do this he might change the name, substitute another, and so perpetrate a fraud.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Suppose a bank should pay more than the amount on deposit through no fraud of the holder, from whom can it recover the amount?
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Whenever the fraud is found out an innocent subscriber can do one of three things.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Of course if a person has been deceived by an agent, if a fraud has been practised on him, he can avoid his contract.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles