Shame On You, admin
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by JGutenberg
I had some spare time today, so I decided to check out the "Complete offers and get eRepublik Gold" feature which I've been meaning to do for a while.
The first offer I investigated charges you 10 dollars a month and you get 8 gold, however it's in not obvious. Real sleazy, but this is hardly the worst.
What really pissed me off was this offer that gave you two free gold if you downloaded and played this game called "Bomb Squad." Interestingly enough, I can't find this offer again.
It contained this following link to gamevance.com:
http://www.gamevance.com/?lp=320&a=303&aid=18159-SR2_444331706A
If you download and play this game you can get two gold for free. However, of course there is a catch; it installs a f*cking Trojan Virus on your computer. No joke. Thankfully, my anti-virus protection alerted me of this and I quickly removed both the program and virus from my computer. However, if it hadn't I'd likely be two gold richer and have a Trojan going through my personal files. My initial screenshot of this failed and I'm not inclined to attempt to download it again to take another. However, if you don't believe me I invite you to check out the link yourself.
Considering the integrity of the previous offers I didn't dare attempt any other offer, let alone ones that required me to enter my PIN.
So, now I ask you admin: installing trojan viruses in your customer's machines for a few cents each? Is this how low you can go?
There is of course a legal disclaimer, but this isn't about legal technicalities this about damn respect for your customers.
"These sponsored offers are provided by a third party service, not by eRepublik. Please read all fine print associated with any offer, as the conditions for each one are different and some offers can take from several hours to several days to credit your gold account. If you are missing eRepublik gold from completing an offer, please go to the "Offer Status" to report the problem to the offer provider. As soon as your offer is completed and approved you will receive an eRepublik alert."
Interestingly enough, in the FAQ there is the following question and corresponding answer:
Q: I’ve heard that some of the sponsored offers contain malware. Is that true?
A: Obviously neither eRepublik nor the offer providers wants to promote anything that’s going to harm our members. We selected the providers we work with to make sure that they can quickly remove any offers that members report as harmful or suspicious; and we have already removed numerous offers based on user reports. Again, make sure you read any fine print before completing a sponsored offer, and remember the age-old rule – if something doesn’t seem right to you, don’t complete the offer.
Again, have you no shame?
~Your pissed of investigative neighborhood journalist, JGutenberg
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Thats a pretty bad thing , if it were me i would be screwed because i use AVG ( and it's shit ) .
But not the admins fault they just missed it and since the offers gone now you know that they fixed the problem as fast as they could .
I'm using AVG and it detected it. I don't think the admins took it down, I just think it shows you different random offers every time.
I'm using avast and what to remain oblivious as to whether its sh1t or not! The free offers that require you to sign up for opinion sites are what I stick to... but they're getting cleverer at noticing bogus addresses!
be grateful for the offers, not all people can get those free golds..... <-- for example : me 🙂
They don't show random offers every time, I've been getting the same offers for months.
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Well you should know by now that eRepublik is now the best at the old customer service. <--- Understatement of the Year!
@ Brendan C -- I see different ones every time I look at it.
Nice post. I don't think the admins feel any emotions at all.
One thing that needs to be clearly understood is that this particular service provider is used by many other game sites (ex. Facebook/Zynga) for their gaming extras, and eRepublik is one of their clients, just like the others.
Admin actually has no direct power or say over the particular offers that are shown from this service. In that sense, they are in the same position as us players; they can submit complaints about particular offers that have been found to be malicious or potential phishing sites, and request they be removed.
That being said, always be wary of the sites and offers in exchange for gaming extras, no matter how legitimate they may appear. Alert surfing is safe surfing.
Anaille, sorta like abstinence...except that isn't very fun...
My point is that the admins should at least CHECK all offers...
It would be highly impractical for a client company to be the one to do the offer scrutiny. This is a job for the service providers. After all, that's one of the things they get paid for, consistency and reliability of the service.
I do understand your frustration, and I'm not saying your point is invalid, but honestly, Admin can't scrutinise and fix somebody else's broke stuff while they're trying to fix their own.
You could actually help lighten Admin's load, even by one ticket, by going direct to the service providers' websites and submitting your own complaint.
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