Definition of click fraud
: fraud committed by clicking through an advertisement on a website multiple times to spuriously increase the cost to the advertiser
Click fraud is where organisations or individuals take advantage of search engines' pay-per-click models—in which a company pays a fee if a consumer clicks through from the search engine to its website after entering search criteria—by continually clicking on an organisation's link. — Travel Weekly
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The first known use of click fraud was in 2001
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