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Saturday 31 March 2012

Draw Something scam targets players via Twitter






Draw SomethingThe Draw Something game is a soaraway success, with hundreds of millions of downloads onto iPhone and Android smartphones since it was launched early last month.
Everyone's talking about it, and the hype became even huger when OMGPop, the New York software house that created the app, was sold for a cool $210 million to gaming goliath Zynga.
But with so much buzz and interest in the Pictionary-style game, it's perhaps not a surprise to find scammers trying to make a quick buck by leaping on the bandwagon.
Here's a Twitter account we found, that's spamming users telling them that they have won a prize. 

But with so much buzz and interest in the Pictionary-style game, it's perhaps not a surprise to find scammers trying to make a quick buck by leaping on the bandwagon.
Draw Something scam survey
What you will discover, however, is that you are taken to an all-too-familiar survey scam. Your chances of ever receiving a prize are remote - chances are that you will either end up handing over personal information, or will be helping the original scammer earn commission.
Survey scam
We've reported the account as spam to Twitter, and hopefully they'll shut it down soon. But it wouldn't be a surprise to see more Draw Something-related scams both on Twitter and perhaps on Facebook also given its tremendous popularity.
Update:
Well, what do you know.. as soon I tweeted about this, I instantly got a response from a different Twitter scam account:


Scam tweet
So I've reported that account as a spammer too. :)

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