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With the widespread use of mobile devices, mobile online advertising is taking more and more market share. Cost per click and cost per view are the most popular pricing modes in mobile internet advertising, which take effective clicks or displaying duration as the charging basis. However, at the same time, ad fraud, which uses illegal and invalid clicks to fraud advertisers in order to obtain unreasonable income, become a serious problem. Most of the previous studies on click fraud in website focused on network traffic data analysis. This makes them cannot solve the placement fraud problem, which use invalid placement to mislead user to click on it in mobile apps. In this paper, we propose a joint crowdsourcing and data analyzing based placement click fraud detection system. For the characteristic of placement fraud in mobile apps, automatic processing cannot cover every possible fraud. To overcome this, our report system provides a platform to find all possible placement fraud through crowdsourcing. Report system has three main services: a monitor service for monitoring user’s call; a layout service for recording the screen; a data service for recording the backend data. Because the placement fraud only appears when users use the apps, the report system based on crowdsourcing can cover every possible placement fraud. We implement our system in 10 tablets with 500 apps to evaluate its effectiveness. Experiment result shows that our approach can record enough data to analysis which app has placement fraud. What’s more, our system can figure out some special placement fraud which pop ads when user is using other apps. This placement fraud cannot be solved through automatic method in previous studies.
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Wang, B., Wu, F., Chen, G. (2018). Placement Fraud Detection on Smart Phones: A Joint Crowdsourcing and Data Analyzing Based Approach. In: Zhu, L., Zhong, S. (eds) Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks. MSN 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 747. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8890-2_12
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