| With the rise in popularity of Facebook texas holdem | | | | player of violating the games terms of service or |
| poker games for social networks such as Facebook, | | | | Facebook's own rules and then instruct them to click |
| MySpace, Bebo, Tagged and Hi5 also came the | | | | on a link and login in order to save their accounts from |
| unfortunate accompanying rise in reports of players | | | | deletion or suspension. In reality these links open |
| accounts being broken into and having their Facebook | | | | websites designed to look like Facebook or |
| poker chips stolen. The forums on these social | | | | MySpace's login pages in order to trick users into |
| networking gaming sites are littered with hundreds if | | | | entering their emails and passwords. Then while the |
| not thousands of such reports. As Facebook poker | | | | fake website redirects or distracts them, hackers are |
| chips become more and more valuable these reports | | | | busy logging into their texas holdem poker account and |
| are set to continue to rise. There are, however, some | | | | transferring out their Facebook poker chips into other |
| steps you can take to avoid letting these hackers and | | | | accounts. |
| phishers get their hands on your hard earned poker | | | | Official representatives for these games or from |
| chips. | | | | social networking sites will never contact you via your |
| Never give out your password: This seems like | | | | inbox. These messages should be deleted and |
| common sense but you would be surprised at how | | | | reported to the appropriate people so that they can be |
| many people lose their chips because they gave their | | | | shut down immediately. |
| passwords to a friend or family member or girlfriend | | | | You didn't win any lottery or special promotion for |
| boyfriend. Are you 100% sure that you wont ever get | | | | chips: Another method that hackers use to steal your |
| in a fight with this person in the future and to get back | | | | poker chips is the old "lottery" method where they |
| at you they won't log into your account and empty | | | | claim you have won a million Facebook poker chips or |
| every last Facebook poker chip? Or maybe one day | | | | some other special gift and to claim it you must log in |
| they ask you for some free chips as a loan and you | | | | to the link they provide. Just like the phishing scam |
| turn them down, and so they decide they're going to | | | | previously mentioned, these sites only steal your |
| log into your account and help themselves. Just make | | | | passwords and login information. There is no lottery. |
| it a habit to never give out your login information to | | | | Don't download Facebook poker cheat programs or |
| anyone, his way if something ever does happen and | | | | trainers: Many of these so called cheats for Facebook |
| your account is hacked into, you won't have to | | | | poker are nothing more than trojan horse virus |
| suspect any of your friends or family of doing it and | | | | programs with keyloggers embedded into them. The |
| cause any hard feelings. | | | | hackers display them on sites like YouTube or |
| Don't fall for the phishing scams: A popular method of | | | | advertise them on Facebook's forums with the |
| stealing player's Facebook poker chips recently has | | | | promise of doubling or tripling your Facebook poker |
| been to send them a seemingly official message to | | | | chips in a matter of minutes. But as soon as you |
| their Facebook inboxes pretending to be from | | | | download and run the program and log into your |
| Facebook security or an "official" Facebook | | | | account, a copy of your password is already being |
| representative, or even from the game creaters | | | | sent to the hacker waiting patiently across the internet |
| themselves. These fake messages usually accuse the | | | | to use it and break into your account. |