Petikan dari majalah TIME Friday, Nov. 06, 2009
http://www.time. com/time/ business/ article/0, 8599,1935698, 00.html?xid= rss-topstories
Facebook games — Mafia Wars, FarmVille, Restaurant City — have become surprisingly effective at diverting time wasters among the social-networking crowd. More than 63 million people alone play FarmVille. But now accusations have surfaced that the games can lead some more gullible players, including children, into Internet scams, especially if they have a cell phone.
Here's 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. (See the top 10 Internet blunders.)
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.
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4 pengkritik bebas:
aku memang salah seorang yang addict ngan game2 tersebut tapi xde sampai nak bagi2 no tepon kat offer yg ntah pape.
apasal tang mafia wars tue di highlight kan... dengki la tue he...23x
bro addict..tp xtau awat xleh men pagi nie
blackskin: hehe..baguslah klu mcm 2.. =p >
br: sebab game 2 paling fofular..
bkn sebab dengk bro..pagi 2 hang kot..2 yg xdapat men..
he...23x teu la pasl
nie nk masuk facebook pun xleh..ade org block kot he...23x
out of topic--> welcome... hp angah cikai gak ke he...23x nie bro dah update panduan tue.. leh je view panduan teu kat blog bro..xperlu nk download2
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