Letting the Texas Hold�em chips fall where they may

Not in your pocket

This surfaced today:

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It�s another Facebook scam, this time trading off game maker Zynga�s name:

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The page prompts you to �like� and �share� its advertisement. It looks like about 6,500 people did at this point. We checked later and Facebook users were �liking� it at the rate of 800 �likes� per hour.

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If you click through without sharing or posting the notice, you still get the offer -- some adware-infected games and job search help. Obviously somebody is hoping to make some money as an affiliate, passing along �customers� to a variety of sites:

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Bubble Boomers � great game.

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About three weeks ago GFI Sunbelt blogger Chris Boyd wrote about a similar scam. Obviously, the stakes are going up since that offer was only ONE million chips,

He concluded:

�I doubt we�ve seen the last of this one��

He was right.

Tom Kelchner