Facebook: List of Fake Applications (Mafia Wars, FarmVille, etc.)

By John Highway on May 13, 2010 1:50 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Image via CrunchBase

As many games and applications become more popular on social networking websites such as Facebook, people will try to take advantage of people's curiosity (and sometimes, greed) to coax users into joining or adding applications that promises to give you rewards in return. This is not true and will most like result in sort of phishing for user information.

Some of the games targeted have been Zynga's more popular Mafia Wars, CafeWorld and FarmVille. Here are some of tags to look for and avoid (use the Facebook feature to 'Hide' unwanted application postings)

"Farmville v"

http://www.facebook.com/pages/FV-Filter/

"via Farmville"


http://www.facebook.com/pages/FreeFarmGiftscom/

"Mafia Wars Bonus Checker"


http://apps.facebook.com/mwgames/

Enhanced by Zemanta

"Mafia Wars Secret Weapon"
http://apps.facebook.com/mafiawarssecret/

"Café Win"
http://apps.facebook.com/bonuscafe/

"Super Wok"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cafe-Cash/

"Red Goat"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Goat-Released/

"Red Sheep"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Sheep-released/

Updated: 2010-05-17

"Mafia Wars Ultimate Strategy Guide"
http://apps.facebook.com/mafiawarsguide/

Updated: 2010-05-18

"Mafia Wars Advanced M-48 Army Tank"
http://apps.facebook.com/mafiawarsadvanced/

Updated: 2010-05-19

"brand new"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mustang-Foal-Released/

"FarmVille Filter"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Feed-Filter/

Updated: 2010-05-21

"Mafia Wars Tank"
http://apps.facebook.com/mafiawarsweap/

Updated: 2010-05-25

"Farmville." (note the 'period' at the end)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FV-Bonuses-Rewards/

Updated: 2010-05-30

"Mafia Wars BG"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mafia-Wars-Bonus-Gift/

Updated: 2010-06-01

"rtmustang"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mustang-Released/

Updated: 2010-06-07

"Secret Cow"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Secret-Cow/

Updated: 2010-06-10

"Belted Cow"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Belter-Cow/

"Farmer Items"

http://bit.ly/chthsU

Now they're using URL shortener's to conceal their nefarious looking URLs.

"Secret Sheep"

http://www.facebook.com/pages/FV-Secret-Sheep/

Updated: 2010-06-11

"GameSecrets"
http://shorturl400.com/FVsecretbonus

Other known Game Cheat/Scam Facebook pages:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Secret-Cow-Released/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Restaurant-City-Tips-Tricks-Cheats/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Country-Life-Tips-Tricks-Cheats/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nightclub-City-Tips-Tricks-Cheats/

If you know of others, please provide a link to the posting of the application.

Enhanced by Zemanta

No TrackBacks

TrackBack URL: http://www.highwayman.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/33

Leave a comment