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Today while studiously going through the process of marking all the newsletters I don’t bother with as read, I happened to note the following “Web Clip” above my inbox.

Sort of scant information for someone who paid for an ad. I daresay it looks just like spam. Junk. Fraudulent and whatnot.

I braced myself and made the decision to investigate. I expected lots of “buy _________” etc (item names not included, I get enough spammer attention). Yet here’s what I got:

What in the world is this nonsense? How did it end up as a legitimate paid ad in Gmail’s web clips? I’m starting to feel bad that I hit the submit button as many times as I did, since I’m beginning to suspect that this is some kind of elaborate click fraud. The mindset I can picture at work here is “Hi visitor, we paid 50 cents to get you here, now click the submit button because you know how curious you are to find out what happens. That information in the boxes above? Oh nothing… Just what we plan to charge our client for PPC. But hey, we’ve got this neat button. Isn’t it great? Hit it again!”

Any geniuses out there who could confirm or refute this assumption?

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