Click fraud at record high, poor economy to blame
More than 17 percent of all clickthroughs on Web advertising are the result of click fraud, the act of clicking on a Web ad to artificially increase its clickthrough rate, according to the latest report from Click Forensics, a company that specializes in monitoring and preventing internet crime.According to the company, the level of clickfraud is the highest it has seen since it started monitoring for it in 2006.