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If you play free Facebook games, you've no doubt been hit up for a credit card or offers to get advantages in games such as Farmville or Mafia Wars by sharing personal information or taking a survey. Zynga, the maker of these (and other) games has been reported to have taken money from small, relatively unknown companies that may scam or spam people who accept their offers. Shortly after we began playing Farmville (which we resisted for quite some time and still can't figure out why we keep going at it), reports like this began surfacing about this issue. We ignored them and kept playing, but only because we never play "free" games where you can't succeed without buying or trading information for in-game currency or items, just as we recommend never buying cheat codes from publishers. It just encourages them to continue milking these shady methods of game design, which quickly sucks the fun out of them...