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German IT news site heise.de reports (in German) about a new variant of AdSense abuse: Bloggers in Germany have received emails (one is quoted here, in German again) from a certain M. Adams of nimzoservices.com stating that his "service" has been slowly increasing the AdSense revenue for the blogger's site and that they now expect to get half of that revenue in return. Should the blogger choose not to comply, then he would "risk his AdSense account and all revenues so far". In other words, they are threatening to increase the click rate so that Google would take notice and cancel the blogger's AdSense account. In yet another word: Extortion.
Google has apparently already been notified and the bloggers have already tracked down a Reimund Lutzenberger as the real person behind this scam. Mr. Lutzenberger is running my-nebenjob.com, a site seeking freelancers for "quality assurance and marketing analysis" of websites.
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