Disc: Googler, opinions and comments are my own. Not in Ads. I mean, 4 months ago, I posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30401241#30402432 https:

Disc: Googler, opinions and comments are my own. Not in Ads. I mean, 4 months ago, I posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30401241#30402432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30401241#30402432 Ads fraud is generally a no-op from internal escalations though, something that personally I won't touch unless I know the person. As I see it, Ads generally won't ban an account that has historical spend even if they see something lightly suspicious, and that's where the business is. With smaller spenders, new accounts, and various other flags, your risk of cancellation is _significantly_ higher, but Google's risk is lower since they didn't have the spend already.