Play This game: Mob Wars

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editor @playthismag.com

Although the game may not look like much and is not visually exciting, Mob Wars provides a great deal of boredom killing fun. Although Zynga has a newer version, the concept of Mob Wars has been around for at least a decade stemming all the way back to our faithful TI-83 graphing calculator.

This game is a Web based, Play This will not hold it to the same standards as the next generation consoles games.

Pictured below is a display of the current amount of property editor EvO has.

*”Office hours cause us to have to much free time… this is my main solution”

Mob Wars is not a game that you have to put much time into it, which makes it great to go back and forth to as you have time to kill. Obviously you would not be wasting your time when at home when you can choose Bad Company or Left 4 Dead (review up this week).

Simply buy as much property as you can, fight when you have a few moments and pull in as many mobsters as you can.

The biggest difficulty in the game is starting up, once you are pulling in a good amount of cash flow you can basically just deposit your money once a day. Second pain in the ass is getting your mob to epic proportions. Most of your Facebook friends hate you for sending them all those invites, so the best bet is to add random people into your limited friends profile.

More tips listed below…

The replayability keeps you coming back and ranking up is easy as pie. A great boredom killer but in the full view of Web games it’s only so-so.

We give this game a 4/5 burritos.

*Tips:

When purchasing properties, buy 10 at a time for each time you buy something it’s value goes up.

Do not attack people with mobs larger than yours… but do attack ones closet to your skill for the most experience.

Check out a persons stats before you attack, if they have a casino there is a better chance of them having more money.

Before depositing money, try to purchase as much as you can because the 10% tends to hurt.

Any questions you may have about this game, EvO the editor would be happy to assist. Get at us at editor@playthismag.com

“aquaopia.com” is a phishing Web site to steal your information

If you are receiving information about the Web site aquaopia.com (along the lines of I found a picture of you on aquaopia.com check it out, usually in the form of a message on social networking sites), do not provide it any information as it steals your passwords from Facebook, Myspace or wherever you were re-directed from.

The individuals who have sent you the link and info have already been hacked and need to change any password associated with Facebook and Myspace.

When you first arrive at the Web site it will have a pop up box saying, “Our system indicates that a photo from your ip address has been uploaded to this site within the past 48 hours.” [Pictured below]

After the pop up you will notice a disclaimer at the top saying, “Privacy Note: We never send SPAM to your email address. We never sell your personal info.
This is NOT a MySpace or Facebook login page. MySpace/Facebook users are not authorized to participate on this website.”

It then has a box to let you input info to “find this photo of yourself.” [Pictured below]

After putting in your information it asks, “Must create new password
to view your pics.”          “For your security, please do not use your previous password created on this site or the same password that you use to log into other sites. Doing so may re-trigger our auto-post tell-a-friend feature that you may have previously opted in to from this site.”

After you input a password it asks you how you found the Web site with another annoying pop up then provides you with a list of Web sites.

Most professional Web sites do not have such terrible font as presented above.

The next page shows another pop up box saying, “FINAL STEP BEFORE RETRIEVING RESULTS!
Our system indicates that your friend Kiss my ass recently bookmarked and reserved this page just for you!”

Chances are there is no real person named kiss my ass… and if it accepted the name it’s probably a bit fishy.

Also when the pop up box shows up it says the Web site is http://www.this-isnt-personal.com he even warns users to say you are probably about to get screwed.

After the pop up…. a box asking you to fill out one of those annoying surveys, an IQ test or various other advertisements. If you fill out the IQ test and put in your cell number it will begin to charge you $9.99 a month for some sort of subscription.

In conclusion, if you see this Web site, avoid it. Do not provide it with any information what-so-ever. We have provided it our e-mail address and it quickly began to fill our spam box with junk mail. It steals your password, cons fools out of money by providing information and is a phishing Web site.

-Play This Magazine Staff.

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