US Fraud statutes are VERY broadly written. In this case, each time they knowingly dropped an inflated bill in the mail, that was a new count of mail fraud. I

US Fraud statutes are VERY broadly written. In this case, each time they knowingly dropped an inflated bill in the mail, that was a new count of mail fraud. If they emailed the bills, it was wire fraud. More traditional click fraud, where the the clicks are inflated with bots or even other humans at the direction of the person benefiting from them would fall under the wire fraud statutes, assuming that somewhere in the contract between the parties it states that you will not take any action to inflate your clicks. The breach of that contract becomes criminally fraudulent because they are paying you based upon a misrepresentation by you - namely that you have stated that you won't do such things.