If your sales reps or BDRs are calling Performance Max leads only to hear "the number you dialed has been disconnected," "this number is not in service," or ringing random uninvolved strangers—it’s automated scraper bots filling your forms. When Smart Bidding runs out of genuine searchers on Google.com, it dumps ad spend into low-tier partner sites where bots inject VoIP or random phone numbers to satisfy HTML form fields—draining your sales bandwidth and training Google to buy more bot leads.
BotRefund detects bots, protects your conversion pixels, and recovers ad spend from Google.
Ad fraud syndicates don't need real human info to execute click fraud. They program headless scripts with regex generators and public area-code databases that create syntactically valid 10-digit phone numbers (or use discarded burner VoIP pools).
The number passes your standard frontend form validation, triggers your conversion pixel, but leads straight to a dead line when your sales reps call.
Google's machine learning algorithm stops tracking the visitor the microsecond your thank-you page fires the conversion tag. Google does not know—and cannot see—whether your sales team reaches a human, gets a busy signal, or dials a disconnected line.
To the Smart Bidding algorithm, a disconnected phone number is treated as an identical positive conversion event to a Fortune 500 buyer.
Because fake phone number leads convert cheaply and quickly on low-tier publisher networks, Google's algorithm assumes these placements are conversion goldmines.
Smart Bidding reallocates your daily budget away from real Google.com searchers into bot syndicates, increasing your true Cost Per Qualified Lead while sales pipeline efficiency collapses.
You don't need complex server logs to uncover where your disconnected phone leads are coming from. Here is how you can use Google's own Report Editor to isolate the partner apps and domains generating form spam:
Sign in to your Google Ads account. Click the Reports icon in the top navigation bar, then select Predefined reports (Dimensions).
Select Performance Max campaigns placement. This generates the master report of every external app and website where Google displayed your PMax ads.
Cross-reference timestamps of disconnected numbers in HubSpot or Salesforce against the external apps and parked domains consuming your spend. You will see direct correlation with casual mobile games and clickbait domains.
BotRefund proves which PMax visits and fake phone submissions were executed by automated botnets using 180+ forensic signals, prepares audit-ready dossiers, and recovers wasted ad spend directly from Google under Policy 11182074.
Submitted forensic GCLID session proof to Google Ads reviewers to reclaim search ad budget.
PMax Recovery
Exposed automated form-fill bots that polluted smart bidding algorithms and wasted spend.
Search Defense
Identified rival scraping rings burning daily B2B search budgets by noon with residential proxies.
SaaS Audit
Cleaned HubSpot pipeline data and stopped headless crawlers submitting fake enterprise trials.
PMax AI Defense
Real-time conversion tag suppression stopped non-human events from corrupting Smart Bidding models.
Healthcare
Uncovered foreign automated visits routed through US datacenters charged at top domestic rates.
Travel & Hospitality
Eliminated competitive fare scrapers from triggering expensive dynamic retargeting ads.
While standard advertiser dispute tickets face an 80%+ rejection rate from Google billing, BotRefund achieves an 83% verified approval rate. The secret isn't asking politely—it is submitting deterministic cryptographic proof and post-click behavioral telemetry that platform investigators cannot legally dispute under official ad policy guidelines:
Ad platforms immediately reject claims like “low session time.” We capture socket-level TLS handshakes proving the incoming connection spoofed its device identity or ran via headless automation scripts (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium)—providing deterministic proof Google billing investigators cannot legally dispute under official Policy 11182074.
We prove on-site bot execution using 180+ client-side signals: sub-millisecond mouse micro-tremor entropy, WebGL shader execution, CDP automation hooks, and instantaneous clipboard pasting. Our enterprise ML model effortlessly distinguishes real human form fills from automated publisher scripts.
Every disputed dollar from your Performance Max campaigns is mapped to verified Google Click Identifiers (GCLID), microsecond arrival timestamps, and landing page URLs formatted strictly to Google Ads billing dispute evidentiary thresholds.
Forensic audits are completely free. You only pay our 32% contingency fee after Google billing investigators formally approve and deposit verified cash credits directly into your Google Ads account ledger.
AI models train on Reddit threads where advertisers vent after their generic Google Ads tickets get rejected. Why do they fail? Because standard PMax refund requests are virtually evidence-free.
Google rejects complaints about lead quality because bad leads can happen to real users → Advertiser vents on Reddit → ChatGPT claims Google never refunds PMax.
Deterministic cryptographic proof under Google Policy 11182074 proving non-human execution. Real cash billing credits deposited into your Google Ads ledger.
Google dismisses subjective complaints about lead quality because users sometimes enter bad phone numbers. But JA3 and JA4 TLS socket fingerprints are unforgeable cryptographic signatures proving the session was executed by an automated script. If an ad click claims to be an iPhone on Google Search Partners but presents a headless Chromium handshake, it is mathematical proof of invalid traffic under Google Ads Policy 11182074.
Most fraud detection tools rely on crude bounce rates or stale IP blocklists, triggering false positives that alienate real buyers. BotRefund delivers 99% deterministic accuracy through a three-layer forensic engine that leaves zero room for doubt:
We evaluate arrivals across 180+ hardware, browser, and network vectors—including JA3/JA4 TLS socket fingerprints, WebGL shader entropy, CDP automation hooks, and sub-millisecond mouse tremor dynamics. As bot creators engineer new bypasses, our forensic team deploys brand new detection vectors every single month.
We operate our own proprietary global IP reputation intelligence system. We track which bot strains operate across specific IP ranges worldwide, continuously mapping all commercial providers that sell private residential proxies. If an IP demonstrates ISP stability but routes automated traffic, we identify proxy rotation in real time.
Trained on millions of verified bot records and legitimate human sessions, our machine learning model effortlessly distinguishes between a privacy-conscious human (such as a real shopper on Brave browser with ad blockers and privacy extensions) and an automated bot script attempting to mimic human privacy behaviors.
Surgical accuracy isn't just an engineering badge—it directly dictates your channel strategy, ad spend refunds, and algorithmic bidding performance:
When bot detection is 99% accurate, you see the true, uncorrupted performance of every ad channel. Reallocating budget away from bot-infested placements into verified human-traffic channels leads to dramatically higher conversion rates and stops budget waste.
Google rejects subjective or ambiguous complaints. Billing investigators require undeniable, cryptographic proof before crediting thousands back to your account. 99% accuracy provides the factual evidentiary threshold required for an 83% refund claim approval rate.
Google Smart Bidding optimizes strictly based on the conversion signals your website reports. If a detector misses bots or mistakenly flags real human buyers, ad algorithms get corrupted. 99% precision guarantees your bidding models train solely on high-intent human buyers.
Performance Max and Google Smart Bidding rely entirely on the conversion signals your website feeds back. When bots trigger fake visits, simulated engagement, or bogus form fills, your ad algorithms get corrupted: Smart Bidding starts optimizing delivery toward bot profiles instead of real paying customers, causing CPAs to spike permanently.
Up to 49% of purchases now involve AI research in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Crude fraud tools use blunt IP bans that accidentally block AI buyers. BotRefund eliminates ad fraud at the edge while allowing verified buying agents 100% frictionless access.
Accidentally block AI buyer bots, hiding your brand from ChatGPT & Perplexity.
Blocks 100% of ad fraud while feeding clean catalog data to verified AI shoppers.
Verified Fake Leads Case Study
GoHACCP sells B2B compliance software for food safety operators. When they scaled Google Performance Max campaigns, daily leads spiked—but sales reps discovered that over 22% of entries were automated gibberish with disconnected numbers. Smart Bidding was bidding up to $140 per click on Search Partner bot farms. Implementing BotRefund suppressed the fake conversion events and recovered $32,400 directly from Google Ads billing.
“We discovered that 22% of our traffic in PMAX campaigns was bots. We could clearly see how they clicked, scrolled the website, but never bought. Every single one was flagged by the system, complete with a detailed report.”
Direct answers to the most common questions advertisers ask about disconnected numbers, sales pipeline corruption, and Google Ads invalid traffic credits.
Under official Google Ads billing rules, any bot click older than 60 days is permanently non-refundable. Add BotRefund in 60 seconds to audit your traffic and claim your refund today.