Security News > 2022 > December > Fraudulent ‘popunder’ Google Ad campaign generated millions of dollars

Scammers using Google Ads, stolen blog articles, and a "Popunder" ad scheme on adult websites pulled in more than $275,000 a day by generating millions of ad impressions every month.

Once on the Txxx iframe page, the user may click on a video or thumbnail, which triggers a real click on a Google Ad on the popunder page underneath, he wrote.

On average, there were about five Google Ads per popunder page.

Simply loading an ad on the popunder page creates ad impressions that networks also will pay for.

"As unaware visitors trigger the popunder landing page and continue browsing in their other tab, the decoy website is constantly refreshing with new content and of course new ads, generating millions of ad impressions per month."

The popunder ad generated a lot of money for the fraudsters.

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