Madman340, I have never heard or seen anything about the 10 seconds you mentioned, and over the years I have read the AdSense Terms of Service dozens of times. The most likely thing would have been invalid clicks. You don't earn anything for invalid clicks. According to Google:
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Invalid click activity consists of any clicks or impressions that may artificially inflate an advertiser's costs or a publisher's earnings, and for which we decide not to charge the advertiser. This includes, but is not limited to, clicks or impressions generated by a publisher clicking on his own ads, a publisher encouraging clicks on his ads, automated clicking tools or traffic sources, robots, or other deceptive software.
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Google has more about this at this link
https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...n&answer=16737