Stop fake clicks draining your ad budget
Managed click fraud protection for Google, Meta & Microsoft Ads. We block bots, click farms, competitor click fraud, and budget-exhaustion attacks in real time, covering Performance Max where self-serve tools can't, and recover your wasted spend through done-for-you Google refund disputes.
Up to 1 in 5 paid clicks is invalid
Industry studies put invalid traffic on paid search between 14% and 25% of clicks. On competitive, high-CPC keywords it runs higher. That spend buys nothing, and worse, it teaches your Smart Bidding to chase fake demand.
Bots & automated clicks
Headless browsers, scrapers, and click bots that hammer expensive keywords from data centres and compromised devices.
Click farms & residential proxies
Low-paid human click farms using rotating residential IPs and real fingerprints that IP blocklists never catch.
Competitor click fraud
Rivals manually clicking your ads across devices and locations to burn your budget, the hardest pattern to detect.
Budget-exhaustion attacks
Coordinated click bursts that drain your daily budget in minutes so your ads go dark and competitors win the auction.
AI-agent traffic
Autonomous AI browsing agents, up ~78× year over year, that pass as legitimate users and slip past 2018-era tools.
Lead-form & conversion fraud
Fake form fills and junk leads that inflate cost-per-acquisition and poison your conversion-based bidding.
Why self-serve click fraud tools fall short in 2026
IP-blocking software (the ClickCease / ClickGuard / Fraud Blocker cohort) was built for an older threat model. Two structural gaps now matter more than ever:
🚫 Performance Max is off-limits
Google blocks third-party API access to Performance Max and Smart campaigns, exactly where most of your spend now flows. Click-side IP blockers fundamentally cannot reach that inventory. Our conversion-side filtering and analyst review do.
🧠 IP blocklists miss modern fraud
Residential proxies, AI agents, and click farms use legitimate browser fingerprints and fresh IPs. Blocking IPs after the fact is reactive and leaky. We score behaviour and intent, not just the IP.
🔒 Annual lock-in, set-and-forget
The #1 complaint about legacy tools is the annual contract and a dashboard you're left to run alone. Unled is a managed service with humans in the loop and no long lock-in.
📑 Refunds left on the table
Google pays refunds for invalid traffic, but only against evidence-grade documentation. Most advertisers never file. We compile the per-click evidence and dispute it for you.
How Unled Ad Protection works
1 · Free audit
We analyse your last 30-90 days of click and conversion data to quantify how much fraud you're paying for and where it comes from.
2 · Real-time protection
A lightweight tag plus server-side signals score every paid click in milliseconds; fraudulent sources are blocked or excluded automatically.
3 · Behavioural & lead validation
We watch session behaviour, cross-device patterns, and lead quality so junk never trains your bidding, including on PMax.
4 · Refund recovery & reporting
Monthly evidence reports, Google invalid-traffic dispute filing, and a real human you can message on Telegram.
Protection plans
Scoped to your monthly ad spend and platforms. No annual lock-in.
Real-time protection for one ad account (Google or Meta or Microsoft).
Full managed protection across Google (incl. PMax), Meta & Microsoft.
Multi-account, high-spend, and under-attack response with a dedicated analyst.
Click Fraud & Ad Protection Knowledge Base
In-depth, original guides on detecting and stopping ad fraud.
Search, Display & Performance Max, how to detect and stop invalid clicks on Google.
Competitor Click Fraud: Signs & DefenseHow to tell if a rival is draining your budget, and how to prove it for a refund.
Budget-Exhaustion Attack ProtectionWhat a budget-drain attack looks like and how to keep your ads live.
Bot Traffic Detection & PreventionAd-fraud bots, scraper detection, and prevention strategies.
Google Invalid-Traffic RefundsHow to document invalid clicks and recover wasted spend from Google.
Unled vs ClickCeaseA managed, PMax-capable alternative to self-serve click fraud tools.
Click Fraud Protection FAQ
Click fraud is invalid or fraudulent interaction with your pay-per-click ads, automated bots, click farms, or competitors deliberately clicking your Google, Meta, or Microsoft ads with no intent to buy. Every fraudulent click is charged at your keyword's cost-per-click, drains daily budget before real buyers see your ad, and pollutes the conversion data your Smart Bidding learns from. Unled monitors every paid click in real time, blocks fraudulent sources, and protects the bidding signals that keep your campaigns profitable.
Self-serve IP-blocking tools were built for 2018-era bots and have two structural gaps in 2026: they cannot reach Performance Max (Google blocks third-party API access to PMax), and IP blocklists miss AI-agent traffic and residential-proxy click farms that use legitimate browser fingerprints. Unled is a managed service: our analysts combine behavioural scoring, device fingerprinting, conversion-side filtering, and manual investigation, covering PMax and the sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT) that automated IP blockers systematically miss. No annual lock-in.
Yes. Competitor click fraud, real people deliberately clicking your ads from phones, home, and office to drain budget, is the hardest pattern to catch because the clicks come from real devices and locations. We detect it with behavioural and intent analysis (session depth, conversion behaviour, cross-device patterns) rather than IP alone, document the pattern with timestamped evidence, and build the case for a Google invalid-traffic refund.
A budget-exhaustion (or budget-drain) attack is a coordinated burst of fake clicks designed to spend your entire daily budget within minutes, so your ads go dark for the rest of the day and your competitor's ads win the auction uncontested. We detect the velocity signature in real time, block the source, and keep your budget reaching real buyers.
Yes, done for you. Google issues automated credits for invalid traffic its own filter detects, and accepts manual invalid-click investigations for additional refunds, but it rejects vague claims. We compile evidence-grade reports, per-click logs, IP/ASN data, device fingerprints, and behavioural anomalies, and file the dispute on your behalf to recover meaningful disputed spend.
Google Ads (Search, Display, Demand Gen, and Performance Max), Microsoft / Bing Ads, and Meta (Facebook & Instagram) Ads. We protect search, display, social, and PMax inventory, validate lead quality downstream, and feed clean conversion signals back into your bidding.