3984) How I got cheated out of my legitimate Advertisement Revenue of $100.62 by Google Adsense's automated systems:
I have an extremely popular blog titled exclusivecoins.blogspot.com which has a world ranking of 14 (at present) given by several rating agencies. The blog has over 4,000 informative posts and has taken 14.5 million views so far from over 219 Countries/Overseas Territories.
A couple of years back, I applied to Google Adsense for advertisements to be placed on my blog. Seeing the popularity of my blog, Google Adsense started placing advertisements on my blog in one day pending verification of the veracity of my blog/posts. They have a policy of remitting the advertisement revenue once it reaches the figure of $100.
When my Blog reached the amount of $100, Google adsense remitted the sum of $100.62 trough a SWIFT message on 22.05.2025, BUT OMMITTED TO MENTION MY NAME in the message.
Encl: Copy of relevant emails received by me:
Notifications on receipt of inward SWIFT message MT 103 my Bankers, State Bank of India, Main Branch, Pune, India sent me the following message:
Inbox
csig@alerts.sbi.co.in
May 22, 2025, 8:47 AM to me
STATE BANK OF INDIA BUND GARDEN PUNE
Madam/Dear Sir,
This is an advance intimation of an inward remittance,with following details:
Account: xxxxxxxxx59
Remitted Amount: USD100.62
Settled Amount: USD100.62
Value Date : 20250522
Sender's Reference: S06514207FDF01
Remitted Information: P1007 INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUE
Ordered By : GOOGLE ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD
8,MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE
MARINA BOULEVARD
SINGAPORE,018981,SG
Kindly note that this is an advice of receipt of remittance. Please contact branch with relevant documents for further information
Regards,
SBI TEAM
As I am a retired officer of the State Bank of India my Bankers State Bank of India through their Main Branch Pune attempted to make the payment to my Bank account by converting the Dollar Remittance to Indian Rupees. They requested me to provide the necessary documents/request letter, which I did forthwith.
Meanwhile, they requested the Singapore Bank which had remitted the said amount to provide them the Beneficiary name.
Imagine my consternation when the Singapore Bank withdrew the remittance from India, which was intimated to me by my Bankers through the undernoted email:
IBD PUNE MAIN 00454
Mon, Jun 2, 3:18 PM (13 days ago)
to me
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Greetings of the day!
We wish to inform that sender bank has recalled the funds due to unavailability of BENEFICIARY NAME.
Please check your google account for beneficiary name and contact your sender for future payments.
Thanks and regards,
IBD Cell
SBI Pune Main (00454)
Collector Office Compound,
B R Ambedkar Road, Pune 411001
As the matter did not progress any further, I searched for the Data Centre of Google Adsense's Singapore email address, as the Remittance of $100.62 had originated from them and wrote the following email to them:
Rajeev Prasad <rajeevprasad1208@gmail.com>
Jun 15, 2025, 9:00 AM (1 day ago)
Dear Sir,
I have a popular blog - exclusivecoins.blogspot.com which has been viewed by 15.5 million viewers worldwide and has been visited by over 219 countries/Overseas Territories. I am a Senior Citizen based in India.
Google Adsense advertisements are being placed on my blog for some time now. Upon reaching a threshold limit of $100, the funds were remitted to India through a SWIFT message received by my Bankers - State Bank of India on 22.05.2025. However, in the SWIFT message Beneficiary's name was not included, hence your Bankers recalled the Remittance.
Thereafter, I have approached Google Help (available on my Dashboard) Google Help Community etc. but I am now at my wit's ends as to how to go about receiving my legitimate ADSENSE Revenue.
Please look into the matter and arrange to have the said amount re-remitted to me at the earliest. In case any other particulars are required, please let me know and I would try and furnish them.
(RAJEEV PRASAD)
I received an automated message/response from Google Data Centre as follows:
Google Data Centers Singapore <singaporedc+noreply@google.com>
Jun 15, 2025, 9:00 AM (1 day ago)
to me
Hi there,
This email is used for the administration of the Google Data Center grant program for Singapore.
If you are enquiring about this issue, we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
If you are enquiring about something else, you should not expect to receive a response beyond this email.
If you’re experiencing any product-related issues, please visit our Help Center - https://support.google.com/
We are unable to support requests to visit Google. We encourage you to visit https://about.google/ for more information about Google.
Clearly, I had hit a stone wall as none of these sites/forums could help me to find a solution and was back to square one:
- Not including my name in the SWIFT message was clearly an unusual ommission on the part of the Singapore Bank managing the financial transactions of Google Data Centre.
- Now it stands to reason that in case my payment is not received during a reasonable time, I would be left with no alternative but to withdraw permission to Google Adsense to place advertisements on my blog.
Rajan Trikha has commented:
ReplyDelete"Very disappointed response from the so called world’s best Co .Hope better sense prevails and you receive your legitimate claim at the earliest."
Thank you so much Trikha sahab. I have been running from Pillar to post. They simply keep sending me to anautomated response which does not understand my problem at all that the fault lies with their bankers. My bankers have been extremely helpful particularly as it is my pension paying branch.
DeleteRajan Trikha has further commented:
Delete"There must be some platform to connect with to sort out the grievances for instructing their Banker to remit with complete details .Very strange that the person of your caliber is unable to get the legitimate response."
No. Everthing leads you to an automated response.There is a Google Adsense community forum for help. I wrote my grievance there too, but apart from a adsense product representative, who gave me a confusing reply but when I explained to her that I had already been sent a SWIFT payment message she kept quiet. Apparently this kind of an issue has not been encountered before by anyone. I tried Google Adsense help on my Adsense dashboard but this also sends me to the Adsense community without looking at my problem.
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