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I’m looking at my AMEX account online and seeing I racked up a $11,000 charge from Myspace. Well, that would be great if I actually set up a campaign profitting so much I could afford to drop that kind of money… too bad that’s not the case.

Unfortunately, what happened is there is an asshole, another advertiser on Myspace, that wants all the impressions and banner spots to himself. Instead of just outbidding us all, he’d rather sink way low, and click fraud us, to the tone of 45,000 over 5 hours, at around $0.25 cents a click. You can see the details and join the conversation over at Wickedfire.

I’m not alone in this click fraudery. A friend of mine got hit hard, and a few others on WF. Apparently, one of the guys click frauding (if there is more than one. I don’t know) is a big? asshole publisher on a network or two.

I’m still in the process of getting this all settled, so its a bit frustrating that I’ll have to see this on my credit till Myspace can get its act together (2-3 weeks probably).

On top of that, I’m testing out PPV traffic with TrafficMedia. The experience has been fine with a few good profitting campaigns. However, they are having some errors with there financing stuff. Basically, my account balance keeps going negative and more negative despite me freezing all traffic. I think im at around $-700 when over the past few days I’ve only spend $500 and should still have $100 left in my account (manual prepayment). Those that have been on automatic withdrawals have had they’re money taken due to this error. MediaTraffic is currently on the issue and will return everything to normal as soon as they know what’s wrong.

Oh, and for all of you emailing me with “Hey, hit me up sometime let’s get something started together!”… Read this.