[kbenson]

This is a very old scam. Twenty years ago, my little brother did something essentially the same with pay-per-click ads and an IRC chat room of people that would all click on each others ads (or more likely there was a bot that did it for them). My little brother was getting multiple checks each week for $50-$150 until his account with most the ad networks was terminated five to six weeks in.

He was 13 or 14 at the time.