--0000000000001489240633a10900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FYI ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Phil Chanda Date: Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 5:22=E2=80=AFPM Subject: Re: Call Rail Forms To: Emma Zumsen Cc: Lisa Fett Hi Emma, Thanks for looping me in on this issue. I have not been made aware, but if Louise/Joey can give us the CallRail links, we can ask CalLRail to block and investigate to look for a pattern. With the links, I can also look for it on the server to see if there are any spikes or IP addresses that we can block We can also take a look to see if we can increase the bot challenge on our host server. Montreal is on CloudCannon and HostDime Thanks, Phil On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 5:17=E2=80=AFPM Emma Zumsen wrote: > Phil, > > Not sure whether you've been looped into this. Not sure if there's > something we can do with CallRail to filter these? > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Louise Scanlan > Date: Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 1:49=E2=80=AFPM > Subject: Re: Call Rail Forms > To: Joey Taylor > Cc: Timothy Thomas , Emma Zumsen , > Cheryl Cartwright > > > Hello Joey, > Thank you for bringing this to my attention. This type of spam was a majo= r > problem last year. The way we stopped it was to opt out of search partner= s > on Google Ads. Now the problem has returned even though NONE of my > campaigns opt into search partners, but it is exactly the same type of sp= am > we had before. > > To the best of my knowledge, these are fraudsters that somehow hijack you= r > google ads to show fake "employment opportunities" to unwitting people > searching for jobs. Here is something I found on Chatgpt that might > explain it better. > *Bot Traffic Emulating GCLIDs* > > - > > *Some sophisticated bots scrape search ads, mimic real clicks, and > generate fake GCLIDs =E2=80=94 making it appear like valid Google Sear= ch traffic.* > - > > *If they hit your site directly with a forged GCLID and gad_source, it > can falsely count as real ad traffic.* > > > And yes,unfortunately you are paying for these clicks. I will bring this > up to Google immediately but just so you know last time they never admitt= ed > to any fraudulent activity despite the fact that Alexa and I tried for > months to get them to refund us. > > I am supposed to have a meeting with Greg soon and will discuss this with > him. > Louise > > > > > > > > > 613.228.2028 | 20eight.ca | Louise@20eight.ca > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 11:54=E2=80=AFAM Joey Taylor > wrote: > >> Good Morning, >> >> For the past week or so, Montreal has been receiving some odd call rails >> (about 10 of them). I believe they are all applicants as the phone numbe= rs >> are not local as well as most do not have messages about care. The thing= I >> noticed about all of them is that the "how did you hear about" category = is >> always tagged to Facebook or Newspaper. They all also have the following >> link in the "referrer domain" category: >>