Click, click, click, click, click.
Though its headlines are shorter and there's far less coverage of British royals, Yahoo's homepage is dotted with the same types of must-click crime stories, scintillating celebrity gossip and self-help items.
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(If you're charged with this crime, then click on this program…) "Lots of people who show up in court are not even thinking of taking steps to change," explained Bob Wolford, Coordinator of Criminal Justice Programs at HowardCenter.
While that redirection of real searches helps to mask the fraudulent clicks, the hijacked machines are also used to automatically generate clicks on target sites every 70 minutes or so, a pattern that helped Click Forensics identify the crime ring.
It has, though, he said, continued to engage in another type of online crime known as click fraud, in which bogus clicks are used to defraud advertisers who pay for Web traffic by the click.
And while it will also be a boon to the massive new organized crime of click-fraud, the search engines, or at least some of them, seem to feel they can afford to be sanguine about the growing dark side of the Internet-advertising industry.
Her friend Rinu Shrinivasan's crime was to click the Like button below said status update.
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