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Facebook Games Like Farmville, Mafia Wars Can Be Costly

By KVNPark | Published: November 16, 2009

It’s no secret that social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace are full of scams.
Scammers’ methods get more and more sophisticated and and the social networking companies do little to crack down on the malicious ads. The result is obvious, isn’t it?
One of today’s most popular methods used by scammers is to use Facebook games.
One example is Farmville. Farmville uses virtual… Continue reading

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Sony Cuts Nigeria Line from Ad after Nigeria Got Pissed Off

By KVNPark | Published: September 11, 2009

Sony made a remark about Nigerian scams in their original PS3 Slim ad and pissed off Nigeria. Sony apologized and changed the ad… Continue reading.
Here’s the original ad:

In the original ad, Sony’s fictional director of rumor confirmation stated, “You can’t believe everything you read on the internet. Otherwise, I’d be a Nigerian millionaire by now.”
The Nigerian government demanded an apology from Sony Computer Entertainment.

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WoW Players be Warned

By KVNPark | Published: August 25, 2009

Phishing scam targeting World of Warcraft players

There is a spam floating around offering the chance to opt-in to a trial of some new mounts for WoW. It is a phishing scam designed to phish your account details.
I would think that gamers are a little more observant to scam emails; and thus, the chances of a successful phishing scam targeting gamers should be rather low.… Continue reading

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