Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @09:13PM 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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Re:Absurd application rights are to blame by ChefInnocent · 2009-11-12 02:52 · Score: 4, Informative

For that you can sign up a bunch of people who want to be your "friend". I don't know about Mafia Wars, but I know Mobsters has a board for finding Mobster friends. This allows you to get the crew you need and not infect your real friends. It's like sleeping with a prostitute using someone elses junk.