Adsense Revenue for Terrorists?
I don’t want to be accused of cherry picking intelligence for this story. Actually there is no story. I used Google’s own search engine to see if anyone had looked into this possibility. Late last year Loren Baker connected enough dots to make for a fairly sensational report. He put a question mark at the end of his title as well.
He did find web pages on Orkut that were ideologically supportive of Al Quaeda and that were monetized with Google Ads. Supposedly click fraud was rampant and unchecked. Google estimates that $1 billion dollars per year is lost to fraudulent ad clicks. I saw no estimate as to how much of that is comprised of organized crime by terror organizations.
The ideology of individuals in these organization is such that any type of lying or stealing perpetrated towards an infidel is not considered morally wrong. At the time of the report, there were forums that openly encouraged members to repeatedly click the ads.
Diet scams and email based fraud can also potentially be supporting terrorist organizations.
