WARNING. Virus On Facebook.

VIRUS. WARNING

If You Receive A Message From Someone On Your Friend's List That Contains This;


From : Facebook Security

PROTECT: YOUR ACCOUNT
Protect your account to avoid the threat of spam .

please protect with click the link below :

http://apps.facebook.com/service_data_info/

Thank you.
This original text from the security team Facebook.

DO NOT Click The Link. 

IT IS A VIRUS. 

It Could Hijack Your Information And Who Knows What Else.

Security Tips to Protect Your Online Accounts

Let’s Play It Safe: Security Tips to Protect Your Online Accounts

 

When it comes to player security, we don’t play games. Zynga takes user security very seriously and while we do all we can to help protect our players, we believe that knowledge is power.

We want to make it easier for players to understand how to protect themselves online. That’s why we’re proud to unveil our first Zynga security video, focused on tips to avoid phishing attacks. Phishing can come in many forms, but usually results in the same thing: players unknowingly reveal personal or account information to the bad guys.

Check out the video above and follow these simple tips on how to protect your online accounts: 

• To keep your personal information private, always keep the old adage in mind: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

• Never, ever, ever share your account information online. With anyone.

• Phishers often try to trick you with "free" horseshoes, Empires & Allies points, and other goodies.

• Phony offers can come in tweets, e-mails, fan pages, chat rooms or forums.

• Scammers try to lure unsuspecting players to fake sites. That's where they can access account and personal information.

• Beware of third-parties who pose as Zynga Police or Zynga Security.

Find out more tips at: www.zynga.com/privacy/security.php

New Family Boss Fight Loot

New Family Boss Fight Loot Item & Update

A new Superior loot item was added to the Boss Fight Rewards bringing the total to 25 items to go for.

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After

This one beats them all! The Street Blade has stats of 200/200 and will make every fighter drool! 

You will have a better chance at getting a Street Blade because you now get 4 items instead of 1 when you Family defeats the Boss.

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After

Reset Timer Compensation

Zynga Is Compensation Players For Issues With The Reset Timers In The Family Progression. The Compensation Will Be Different For Either Individual Players Based On Your Level Or The Family In Which You Are A Member Of. It's A Small Token From Zynga. It Is Well Appreciated Since, For Me And My Family, Have Experienced Many Issues Over The Past Week. Thank You Zynga For Acknowledging The Issues. 

Cuba Returning? We'll Never Know According To Rinzler

 Get Satisfaction

Wow, Zynga Trying To Play Dumb. Oh, The Suspense Is Killing Me. Please, Do Tell Zynga Mod, Is Cuba Reopening? 

Spockholm Inventory Group Update

Inventory Group Update

The Inventory Group bookmarklet by Team Spockholm got an update. The Epic Boss Fight and Smuggler's Haven loot categories were added and now you get a total of all the items you own in each tab.

I had to laugh at my totals for FHEL5.  It's a shame that there is no way to prevent items you don't need anymore from dropping.

Article written by Jennifer Patterson, Creator of the MW Loot Lady Blog, The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page and Co-Host of The Informant Podcast. 

I'm Sorry, This Made Me Laugh Hysterically. MW Loot Lady Laughing At Having 22,874 Items That Are Of No Use To Her. That's A Friggin Riot When Many Of Us Other Players  Would Appreciate Having Just 2.5% Of That Total. Many Of Us Aren't Capped Yet.  Many Of Us Aren't Fortunate Enough To Have The Luxury Of  Pumping Thousands Of Dollars Into This Game. To Brag About It And Rub It In Our Faces Is Distasteful. Thanks For The Input.

Double Family Progression

Mobsters,

You devote a lot of time and energy to becoming the baddest mobster you can be, and now your efforts are about to pay double! With the introduction of Family Progression, many of the things you already do, including completing jobs, crafting items via your NYC properties, fighting, and helping your family members in various ways, will count towards your family's shared experience as well!

Details About the Roll-out
We're eager to give every family the chance to gather collective experience, but, as with all new features, we need to roll it out slowly to ensure stability. Fortunately, we're starting with one of our highest starting percentages ever. 50% of families, chosen randomly, received the Family Progression feature last night, and we will be rolling it out to the rest as soon as we can. So, if your family doesn't have Family Progression yet, it will very soon. We will be tweaking the feature based on player feedback, making a survey available once every family has received Family Progression.

What It Looks Like

When your family receives the Family Progression feature, you'll notice a change to your home screen. A "Family" button will appear in the top right corner of the "Game Progress" section. Clicking on the button will change that section to display your family's progress. Clicking the "Progress" button that replaces the "Family" button will return the section to displaying your personal game progress.

The 4 progress bars at the bottom show how much of the required experience your family has gained in its progression to the next level, which includes experience earned from completing jobs, ices resulting from fighting, crafting items via your NYC properties, and helping members of your family in the ways listed below. Your family levels up and receives the associated perk once you've collectively filled all 4 of the family experience bars.

These details can be found on your Family page, so let's take a look at that now:

A family page with Family Progression includes the following new information: the same family experience progress bars as those on your home screen, the ability to see which family members are contributing the most in each of the four areas, some details about what game activities contribute to your family's collective experience, and a tab devoted to the perks family members receive at each level of Family Progression:

To see your personal contribution to your family's progress, return to the home screen, where a family icon now appears in the Missions bar. Clicking it opens a window in which you can see how much you're contributing each period, the maximum being 2,400 family experience points. The timer in the top right corner of this window lets you know when the current period ends and the next period begins. You have until then to maximize your contribution to your family's collective experience. Fill any of the four personal progress bars and a "Collect" button will appear. Clicking the button rewards you and your family with the amount of experience indicated in the window. (This is in addition to the personal experience you already gained in the process of completing the tasks.) As with mastery events, you don't get to collect unless and until you have filled the bar. Unlike mastery events, Family Progression does not disappear when the timer runs out. When the timer reaches zero for a given period, you and your family will have earned the experience you collected by clicking the "Collect" buttons that you triggered, the timer resets, the leaderboard on your family page resets, and a new opportunity to collect as much experience for your family as you can begins! It is challenging, but entirely possible, to earn the full 2,400 experience points for your family each period just by doing the things you normally do in the game!

We're excited to bring this new layer of experience and rewards to Mafia Wars, especially because they come from doing the things you already do! The fun part for you and everyone in your family, then, will be developing a strategy for how to work together to level up your family faster than it would happen naturally.

We hope you enjoy Family Progression,
~The Mafia Wars Team

IT'd Be Nice If I Could See My Family. STOP TINKERING AND FIX THE REAL PROBLEMS!!!

Cuba Will Reopen Where It Ended

Cuba Reopens Where It Ended For You
If you look at your Progress Module on the Home Page, you will see that Cuba has been added back and it's at 75% for players who have fully mastered it. We have the achievement and the loot  so when will we see Cuba back on the Travel Bar? Nobody knows.

 

Gain Early Access To Cuba

How To Gain Early Access To Cuba

UPDATE: It appears that Zynga has fixed this as many players were booted from Cuba and unable to return.
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We have seen images from Cuba and some players are currently doing Ruby Level jobs. It's not official open but there is a way to get it. If you find a Crew Request to get in. These aren't easy to find.

One of my mafia members, Ron May had a link to his post and I was able to help him with his Crew Collection.  You have to click on "Help X" first.

Then you will get the Crew Collection request and magically be in Cuba.

Everything seems the same except the jobs have a Ruby Level.

You will get a skill point as you master each job.

For some of the jobs, you need Cuban Mercenaries but there isn't a job to loot them.

They aren't available anywhere yet. I asked friends but just got my wishlist.  I was able to buy one from the Marketplace but I got booted out of Cuba so don't try it if you get in.