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Your analytics say Asia, Pakistan, or Russia. Google and Meta charge you US prices.

You paid to reach a US customer. Instead, your team gets traffic from a country where you do not sell, ship, or support—at the cost of a US click. BotRefund documents the location mismatch and the campaign cost for a refund review.

Audit my paid clicks Campaign, click ID, location evidence, and cost—without ad-account access.
REFUND OPPORTUNITY 12%

Up to 12% of paid-click spend may be refundable when the click came from a market your campaign does not serve.

THE COMMERCIAL LOSS US CPC

You paid for a US customer. Your sales team receives a visitor with no path to becoming one.

THE EVIDENCE Proof

BotRefund connects the campaign, click ID, browser, network, and location evidence to the amount you paid.

Why the location gap is not an edge case: 1B+ people use VPNs worldwide, and 23% of internet users report using one. These are examples of services BotRefund can recognize in traffic evidence.

NordVPN ExpressVPN Surfshark Proton VPN

A VPN is not fraud on its own. The refund case is the documented mismatch between where you paid to advertise and where the click actually came from. 12% is the highest signal observed in BotRefund audits; each platform makes its own refund decision.

THE SCALE-UP EFFECT

One click is small. 1B+ VPN users make the blind spot impossible to ignore.

A VPN is not a bot. It is a location gap. One person clicks your ad as a real user, the platform sees a local IP, and your budget starts paying for a customer who may be somewhere else.

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THE PURCHASE

You pay for a click in your target country.

Your campaign targets the US, UK, Japan, Germany, or another market where a customer has real value.

CAMPAIGN TARGETUNITED STATES$20 CPC
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THE PLATFORM VIEW

Google or Meta sees a real user.

The click is made by a person—not necessarily a bot. Using a VPN by itself does not automatically make the click invalid. The platform can treat it as a legitimate ad interaction and charge you for it.

PLATFORM SEESLOCAL IPReal browser · real click
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THE LOCATION SHIFT

But the visitor may not actually be in that country.

The IP can belong to a VPN or proxy exit server inside your target market while the person clicking the ad is physically somewhere else. Your dashboard says United States. Your customer may not be in the United States at all.

HIDDEN ROUTEVPN EXITLocation signal displaced
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THE SCALE-UP

A small location gap becomes a campaign-sized leak.

When VPN usage reaches more than one billion people worldwide, the problem is no longer one unusual session. It is a repeatable blind spot inside paid traffic that looks local until you join the network, campaign, session, and conversion signals.

BOTREFUND AUDIT12%Paid clicks to investigate
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THE RECOVERY

BotRefund finds the evidence and helps recover the spend.

We connect VPN, proxy, hosting, geo, browser, network, behavioral, and campaign signals to the exact campaign, click ID, keyword or ad, session, IP and network, conversion behavior, and advertising cost.

BotRefund prepares the evidence and negotiates the invalid-traffic claim with Google or Meta to recover eligible ad spend.

VALUE FOUND$24KAt 10,000 clicks × $20 CPC
BOTREFUND INTERNAL RESEARCH

Google and Meta charged for 81% of the VPN clicks we reviewed.

This is what makes VPN traffic different from an obvious bot. A VPN user can be a real person, using a real browser, moving a real mouse, searching Google normally, and clicking your ad intentionally.

From the advertising platform's perspective, the click can look legitimate. The problem is commercial value.

81% of VPN-flagged clicks in our internal sample were still charged as ordinary ad interactions.

If you paid to reach customers in the United States but the person is actually in another country where you don't sell, ship, provide services, or accept customers, you may have paid full price for a click that never had the same chance of converting.

Because the visitor appears to have a US IP address, ordinary geo reports may not reveal the problem.

BotRefund detects what normal campaign reporting can miss.

We compare network, VPN, proxy, browser, location, session, and behavioral evidence to identify clicks that deserve investigation. Then we use that evidence to pursue credits or recovery from Google and Meta.

The evidence trail

BotRefund connects the signal to the spend.

We do not simply label an IP as “VPN.” We identify suspicious paid clicks and connect the evidence to the business value of the click.

What the audit connects

  • Google or Meta campaign
  • Click ID
  • Keyword or ad
  • Session
  • IP and network
  • Conversion behavior
  • Advertising cost
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We detect VPN and invalid traffic for free. Our experts prepare the evidence and handle the recovery workflow with Google and Meta—you only pay a share of what we recover.

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Full-service VPN detection + expert refund negotiation

Our team connects VPN, proxy, geo, campaign, click, and conversion evidence, then prepares and negotiates the claim on your behalf. No account access required.

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We scan your traffic at no cost. You get forensic reports and VPN/location evidence.

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Our recovery team knows how to turn connected traffic evidence into a platform review.

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