Google charged you $15 for a US click.
Visitor is in China using a VPN.
You paid US advertising rates, but the actual visitor is outside the market you serve. BotRefund documents the VPN, proxy, browser, and location mismatch to recover your ad spend.
In BotRefund audits, 12% of Google and Meta paid clicks are VPN traffic originating outside targeted US or European markets.
of our audited enterprise clients successfully recover ad spend cash credits from Google and Meta.
active VPN users worldwide, masking true location and draining geo-targeted ad budgets daily.
Why the location gap is not an edge case: Commercial VPNs and residential proxy services routinely route international clicks through Los Angeles, New York, and London exit nodes.
How local ad spend leaks into overseas clicks
Trace the pathway from your campaign targeting settings to the disguised overseas ad click.
You pay premium CPM for a Tier-1 target country
Your campaign targets the US, UK, Germany, or Japan where customers have high conversion value.
Google and Meta see a domestic consumer
The ad click comes through an American residential or datacenter IP address, appearing 100% genuine.
The physical visitor is overseas
The IP belongs to a commercial VPN exit node, while the visitor is physically browsing from China, Russia, or Vietnam.
A silent drain across your monthly budget
With millions of masked connections, up to 12% of your clicks belong to users who can never convert or purchase.
BotRefund collects proof and recovers the cash
We bind the VPN protocol signature to the exact GCLID timestamp, building a formal refund case for Google and Meta.
Google & Meta charged for 81% of the VPN clicks we reviewed.
A VPN user is often a real human using a standard browser and moving a mouse normally. To ad algorithms, the click looks valid. The fatal flaw is commercial viability: you paid full US rates for a visitor in a country where you don’t ship, operate, or accept payments.
BotRefund captures WebRTC leaks, TCP/IP latency discrepancies, and OS clock offsets to prove the true origin before filing claims.
The Forensic Evidence Trail
We don’t just guess. BotRefund links eight concrete data points to every disputed click ID:
VPN Detection Research Collection
Explore our peer-reviewed technical research on VPN exit node attribution, Google and Meta invalid click investigation standards, and protecting conversion signals without punishing legitimate privacy-conscious customers:
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