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Old Central Notice banners showing up in Analytics
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Were seeing several old banner show up in our tracking analytics. For instance

Total for day - 2010-08-18

2009_Jimmy_Appeal5 Support pp 1 1 45.08 45.08 45.08
2009_Notice1 Support2 cc 2 0 0 0
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Both Jimmy Appeal and Notice1 haven't been show in months yet we have logged click paths for them. This could be hard coded fraud, old squid cache, or something else.

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:05 PM
• bzimport added a project: WMF-General-or-Unknown.
• bzimport set Reference to bz24927.
• Tfinc created this task.Aug 24 2010, 9:47 PM
• bzimport added a comment.Aug 25 2010, 12:17 AM

ngautam wrote:

Added tracking to figure out whether this banner is actually being served or whether this is fraud or other illegitimate activity

• Tfinc added a comment.Aug 26 2010, 2:08 AM

Initial research shows that 2009_Notice1 is very commonly associated with fraud.

• Tfinc added a comment.Sep 9 2010, 8:26 PM

This is indeed fraud. Closing ticket as we have already taken action to fix this.

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