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Device farm

Written by Shashank Uppal

Device farms are a form of mobile ad fraud in which scammers manually carry out actions (like clicks, installs, and other types of engagement) to give the appearance of legitimate activity while sapping advertising budgets.  What is a device farm? […]


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Click Redirection

Written by Nikhil Kumar

What is called Click Redirection? Sometimes known as automation redirection, click redirection is another type of mobile ad fraud, where even a user gets redirected to a certain aid, even if he didn’t click on that. This occurs because of […]

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Click Injection

Written by Nikhil Kumar

What Is Click Injection? Click injection is another type of ad fraud that follows much of the same patterns of its brute-force brother. The main point of difference is where and when these clicks are sent. These clicks are not […]

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Click Hijacking

Written by Bharath S.

Click hijacking is one of the most common forms of attribution fraud, but it’s also one of the easiest to spot. When a fake click is delivered to an attribution after the installation has begun, this is known as click […]

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Click Flooding

Written by Barkha Gaur

Click Flooding or Click Spamming is a type of fraud where a large number of clicks are sent in an attempt to obtain the last-click before an install occurs. What Is Click Flooding? Click flooding, also known as click spamming, […]

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CTIT

Written by Nikhil Kumar

Click to Install time (CTIT) is the time between clicking on the online advertising  and opening the versatile application interestingly after effectively downloading the application structure application store. It is numerically derived from subtracting the initial time application open time […]

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Emulated Device

Written by Barkha Gaur

Emulated devices, often known as device emulators, are non-mobile devices that run mobile operating systems. Most developers use device emulators on their laptops to test their products on various devices or operating systems without having to buy and set up […]

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Mobile ad fraud

Written by Bharath S.

What is Mobile Ad fraud? Mobile ad fraud is a representation of various methods used by fraudsters to exploit attribution systems used to measure ROI on advertisements. Ad fraud is most often perpetrated by publishers as well as individuals/groups (aka […]

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SDK spoofing

Written by Bharath S.

What is SDK spoofing? SDK spoofing (otherwise known as SDK hacking) is a type of bot-based fraud, often executed by malware hidden on an app.  How does SDK spoofing work? With this technique, fraudsters add code to an app that […]

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Phone Farm

Written by Nikhil Kumar

What is a phone farm? Phone farms (also called device farms and click farms) are maintained for the purposes of mobile ad fraud and are illegal in much of the world. As mobile advertising budgets have grown, phone farms dedicated […]

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