Cited from Time.com
Do you play Mafia Wars, FarmVille, Restaurant City or Café World?
FarmVille alone have managed to garner more than 63 million people. Accusations have now surfaced that the games can lead to more gullible players into Internet scams.

This is how it works. “You join FarmVille, a game on Facebook in which you can create a virtual farm by growing crops and livestock and tilling the earth. Through your toil, you earn virtual money, but to farm more efficiently or quickly, you can also invest real cash (through PayPal or a credit card) to buy virtual goods, such as seed or a tractor. Should you not have any real cash to spare on things that after all do not actually exist, you can instead accept an offer from one of the advertisers on the game site and get virtual cash in return.”

“These offers, generally known in the business as lead-gen (lead generators), will give you some seed/tractor money in return for signing up for, say, a subscription to Netflix or a credit card. But less scrupulous advertisers lure players in with an offer to take a bogus survey or IQ test. Once it's completed they require a cell-phone number to send you the results. When you enter your cell number and create a password, you have unwittingly subscribed to a service you never wanted but will be billed for. If you're a kid, the mysterious charge then appears on the phone bill of the parents, who often find that phone companies will not cancel services from a third-party provider — even if the parent cannot find out who that provider is.

There’s of course cause for concern. For you less gullible adults, you would just be happy with the current items on your list without paying extra for the ‘perks’. At the same time, you can’t throw caution to the wind and should always be careful on these misleading advertisements.

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