The ridiculous Kim Kardashian Hollywood is seemingly the most popular app in the world right now – you’re probably reading this in-between tapping on fire hydrants and pigeons in a desperate attempt to get more energy, and going on dates with secretly gay baseball players who criticise your outfits and never pay their share of the tab.
While Kim Kardashian herself is making mad coin out of the game – rumour has it, somewhere in the vicinity of $700,000 per day – there are other, more sinister people getting a taste. The app’s tremendous popularity has made it easy pickings for scammers and malware distributors, targeting players who go in search of cheats and hacks.
Like most successful apps,
Kim Kardashian Hollywood drip-feeds its rewards to players. You earn mysterious “energy” points and scramble around for wads of cash on your Hollywood adventures, but the most valuable reward of all, the silver stars with which you can unlock new outfits and influence friends, come at a painfully slow rate.
You can choose to wait for these stars, earn them by participating in various offers, or pay actual, real-life money for them, if you’re really desperate. Some players, however, try and get these rewards through more nefarious means, attempting to download hacks and patches for an endless supply of stars and energy, and this is where the scammers come in.
The Epoch Times report that
Kompaniya Kreata LLC, a firm known for distributing adware, are among those targeting foolhardy players. Users who go to YouTube and search for
Kim Kardashian Hollywood will find an array of videos with URLs that claim to lead to cheats and hacks, when in fact they direct to vairous dodgy pieces of spyware and malware.
I mean, yeah, anyone who would be dumb enough to click on one of said YouTube links probably has it coming, but if you’ve ever felt your finger hovering, consider this your official warning. The security of your shit will become compromised, and you’ll end up more bitter and twisted than a certain C-Lister who will remain nameless (*cough* Willow Pape *cough*).
There are some seemingly legitimate ways to cheat the game, but most involve such elaborate fuckery that it’s easier just to spend idle work hours tapping on champagne bottles and hoping for the best.
