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Old 12-05-2010, 11:31 AM  
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Btw, someone good with numbers and familiar with techniques could conceivable reverse engineer (in addition to simple test signups) any shaving algorithm. It's not something that is impossible to detect but it seldom is. There have been whitepapers on the subject in the past.
Just to back up my statement here is a very old one which is focused on click shaving (when PPC was more common). Most have undoubtedly already seen this one.

"Detecting Hit Shaving in Click-Through Payment Schemes"
http://www.usenix.org/event/ec98/ful...ter/reiter.pdf
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