Tell A Friend Controversy
There has been controversy over the feature in Racing Frogs that allows trainers to tell friends about the game to make GOLD. There were complaints to Racing Frogs about people who considered this to be spam.
In order to obtain gold, users could "tell-a-friend" by sending a message to a friend about racing Frogs. However, the system was "gullible" and the user could simply enter in any name and e-mail address (providing the "@" sign was used and it ended in ".com", conforming this and getting 30 gold free, meaning the user could easily cheat and win a total of 600 gold. Originally, users were given 10 gold in 15 tries (blackmarketing out a total of 150 gold).
The feature has since been turned off.
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