User blog:Fatman126/Making Money Through Hacking

Just to start this off, this is not a blog on how to make money through hacking, this is just my opinions on what I've started to see tapped out players do and the way they do it.

So it all started when I was watching videos on premium items when I saw this YouTuber called "TappedOutPlay" in the sidebar offering a way to get free donuts. They aren't actually free, you earn points through a website to earn paypal vouchers which you use to buy the donuts. EA gets money and everyone is happy right? Then I investigated some more.

This kid hacked the game over a year ago! Then he made a video saying it was a glitch, showing off his hack; I assume he did it so if EA ever caught on he wouldn't get banned. He used his thousands of donuts to make review videos getting thousands of views on YouTube (probably got a fair bit of money out of it) and now hes doing this feature points scam offering free donuts.

If anyone has seen him, let me warn you, feature points asks you to download some pretty dangerous apps. Most are legit but there are a few which will ruin your system. Plus you get like 50 points an app or less, you need over 1000 points for just $1. In the video this kid claims he got 40,000 donuts by buying them with feature points.... thats $2000 worth of donuts... thats 40,000 apps! The truth is everyone who does this feature points thing and uses his referal code is earning him more points. He isn't redeeming his points on donuts, hes just taking the money and keeping it, plain and simple.

I know this just seems like a rant, but this kid is exploiting the game. If you glitch, I can respect that, that's just a fault in the game that you were lucky enough to find. If you hack and keep it to yourself thats fine too, EA will just keep patching. But if you're going to hack, and then try to make money out it, ruining peoples systems and putting them off the game, this is the kind of thing that will piss EA off, and then they really will stop the game.

I'll try and make my next post a bit more upbeat, feel free to drop a comment with an opinion or to call out any other scammers out there.