If you have watched thousands of dollars drain from your budget on Performance Max leads that never answer the phone, move their cursors in rigid straight lines, or submit fake contact forms—yes, you can legally get refunded by Google.
On Reddit and marketing forums, you will hear advertisers say: "Google never refunds invalid clicks." That is because 80%+ of standard advertiser dispute tickets are rejected. Why? Because marketers submit subjective complaints like "my sales team says these leads are fake" or "my bounce rate is 95%."
Google billing investigators cannot verify CRM notes. But under official Google Policy 11182074, Google is legally obligated to credit invalid traffic when presented with deterministic forensic proof: cryptographic TLS JA4 handshakes, Chrome DevTools Protocol automation hooks, and verified GCLID microsecond arrival logs.
The secret isn't asking customer support nicely—it is submitting audit-ready forensic dossiers that billing investigators cannot legally dispute under platform guidelines.
Don't let Google write off your wasted bot spend. We generate certified forensic dossiers for every invalid click session, submitting claims directly to Google billing review teams with an 83% verified approval rate.
$0 upfront • Google 60-day dispute window • 83% approval rate
Why generic support tickets face an 80%+ rejection rate and the exact technical thresholds Google billing requires for approval.
When advertisers tell Google support "our sales team called these leads and they are disconnected," Google rejects the claim within 48 hours. Google Ads billing investigators cannot verify CRM call logs or internal sales notes. Without deterministic web-traffic proof, Google considers the leads legitimate interactions that simply failed to close.
Under official ad policy guidelines, advertisers have exactly 60 days from the timestamp of an invalid click to submit a formal investigation request. Every day you wait to audit your Performance Max campaigns, past fraudulent ad spend is permanently lost as non-refundable publisher profit.
To issue a formal billing credit, Google review teams require deterministic evidence: JA4 TLS socket handshakes proving headless browser spoofing, sub-millisecond mouse micro-tremor logs, and microsecond timestamps mapped to individual Google Click Identifiers (GCLID). BotRefund automatically compiles this evidence for every bot session.
Follow these three steps inside Google Ads to uncover the third-party partner placements eligible for billing refunds:
From your Google Ads dashboard, click on Reports in the main navigation, select Predefined reports (Dimensions), navigate down to Other, and choose Performance Max campaigns placement.
Review the domain list. You will find thousands of impressions and clicks served across obscure foreign domains, mobile games, and low-tier blogs that have zero commercial connection to your target market.
Every click carries a unique Google Click Identifier (GCLID). BotRefund correlates these GCLIDs with browser automation telemetry, generating the exact evidentiary dossier needed for Google Policy 11182074 disputes.
Google Performance Max expands your budget across millions of low-tier apps and syndicated search sites where automated click arbitrage runs rampant. BotRefund captures deterministic client-side telemetry to halt pixel poisoning and recover your cash.
Marketers frequently post on Reddit that Google Ads customer support refuses to issue refunds for bot traffic. That is because advertisers submit generic dispute tickets stating "we are receiving fake leads."
Google billing investigators dismiss subjective feedback. However, when BotRefund submits cryptographic TLS JA4 handshakes, automated Chrome DevTools hooks, and verified GCLID microsecond logs, investigators must approve credits under official Google Policy 11182074.
Traditional click fraud software tries to block IP addresses. But Google doesn't allow IP exclusions in Performance Max campaigns, and modern bot syndicates rotate through millions of residential mobile IP proxies anyway.
BotRefund operates inside the client browser. We evaluate 180+ behavioral and cryptographic signals—including sub-millisecond mouse tremor entropy, CDP automation hooks, WebGL shaders, and keypress timing—instantly isolating automated form scripts without blocking real human prospects.
Every time an automated bot submits your form, your confirmation page fires a conversion tag. Google AI views this as a victory, optimizing its bidding algorithm to buy more clicks from the exact same publisher placement.
BotRefund detects synthetic telemetry in under 50ms and silently suppresses the Google Ads conversion pixel. The spam submission never registers with Google's machine learning, protecting your Smart Bidding model and driving down your true Customer Acquisition Cost.
Putting annoying CAPTCHA checkboxes or puzzle challenges on your landing page destroys legitimate conversion rates. Real executives and buyers will bounce immediately, while automated botnets solve CAPTCHAs in seconds using automated solving services.
BotRefund operates entirely in the background. Real prospects experience a completely frictionless, fast-loading form submission, while automated scraping bots are cataloged and queued for billing recovery.
GoHACCP, an enterprise food safety consulting firm, was losing thousands of dollars weekly to fake lead submissions. After their initial support ticket was rejected by Google Ads, they deployed BotRefund to capture deterministic telemetry on incoming traffic.
"When Google first denied our refund request, we assumed that money was lost forever. BotRefund generated audit dossiers backed by cryptographic TLS signatures and GCLID logs, and Google approved $18,400 in direct billing credits within two weeks."
Everything you need to know about getting refunds for fake leads on Performance Max under Google Policy 11182074.
Yes. Google Ads has an official invalid traffic dispute process under Google Policy 11182074. If you submit deterministic evidence (cryptographic TLS JA4 fingerprints, CDP automation hooks, and microsecond GCLID logs), Google billing investigators approve cash credits directly to your account ledger.
Over 80% of standard dispute requests are rejected because advertisers submit subjective complaints like "these leads have fake phone numbers" or "our bounce rate is high." Google billing investigators cannot verify CRM records and require deterministic technical telemetry.
Google Policy 11182074 governs invalid traffic investigations and billing credits. It defines invalid clicks as automated tools, scrapers, and fraudulent interactions that generate artificial impressions or clicks without genuine user interest.
Google strictly enforces a 60-day dispute window from the date of the click event. After 60 days, billing investigations are closed and unrecovered funds become permanent publisher profit.
BotRefund captures socket-level TLS handshakes (JA3/JA4), CDP automation hooks, and sub-millisecond mouse tremor entropy. We match every fraudulent interaction to verified Google Click Identifiers (GCLID), creating audit dossiers that platform investigators cannot legally dispute.
BotRefund operates on a 100% risk-free contingency basis ($0 upfront). You only pay our 32% fee after Google formally approves and deposits verified billing credits directly into your Google Ads account.
Under Google Ads official policy, invalid click claims must be formally filed within 60 days of the click event. Every day you delay, past bot spend is permanently written off as unrecoverable publisher profit.