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Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

jamie writes with a follow-up to our recent discussion of social gaming scams: "Mark Pincus, CEO of the company that brought us Mafia Wars, says: 'I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues right away. I mean, we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar, which was like, I don't know... I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it.'" TechCrunch also ran a interesting tell-all from the CEO of a company specializing in Facebook advertisements, who provided some details on similarly shady operations at the popular social networking site.

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  1. Re:And he likes that he did this... by asliarun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is everyone getting inspired by Agassi now? Sheesh.

  2. Re:Absurd application rights are to blame by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you want to play the games so bad and don't want to give out your information, then the solution for now is to just have an account with no friends (a.k.a. the Saturday Night Slashdot Special.)

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  3. Re:And he likes that he did this... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    but it would suck to get a decent following and friends list and have it all ripped away when they canceled you

    But not as bad as getting the Zwinky toolbar. Some years ago I got one of those horrible persistent-ware things and it was like the monkey's paw. I finally had to run my computer over with my car repeatedly to finally get rid of it.

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  4. Re:And he likes that he did this... by genican1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I knew something was up when the zwinky download page asked for my blood type.

  5. Re:And he likes that he did this... by CyprusBlue113 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only if they're seperate incidents

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  6. Re:And he likes that he did this... by kalirion · · Score: 2, Funny

    As for "not thinking about consequences" isn't that what the women did as well? It seems they are just as guilty, else they'd not be pregnant

    He probably told them he was on the pill and they believed him.