Pogo.com- Is It a Scam?
By: Blake
Many people are familiar with the popular game site Pogo.com. The site gives you a chance to win cash jackpots for free on a variety of games. The jack pots can be up to 4,999 dollars, but does pogo pay out.
I have done some searching online and have found that many people that have won a jackpot on pogo have not received their prize. The only reason pogo will not send a prize is if the winner has used some sort of cheat. There are many sites that have down-loadable software that will play the games on pogo for you, but pogo can recognize this and will not send your prize if a program like this is used by our account. A lot of people that have been denied their prize claim that they have never cheated, but who knows for sure. The cheat programs are widely available and free. Anyone can be using them and if pogo sees that your account has ever used a cheat then they will never send you a prize if you win.
But does pogo pay out? Well they are still in business, so they must be paying out. I know for a fact that they do though because my friend’s mother won over $400 playing the pop-it game. I personally have never won anything, yet. If I ever do I will make a post of it prize received or not.
What do you want for free? Pogo is a fun place to waste some time and chat with different people. If you have an interesting pogo experience please comment.
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
As you know, EA now own Pogo.com. EA have always been and will always be completely incapable of any sort of decent customer service. They don’t care about their customers once they have the money in the bank, the recent debacle with Spore is proof of this. It takes a lawsuit for them to actually give a crap. As for them detecting cheat-bots on peoples computers, I don’t believe this rubbish for one second, EA can’t even make half of their games work properly, what makes you think that they could even muster up enough brainpower to detect something like that. The simple truth is, they don’t want to pay you and will lie to you to avoid doing so. EA DON’T CARE ABOUT CUSTOMERS, THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT MONEY.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I do not believe that Pogo can tell if you are using a program to cheat. I have an excellent Program on my computer that checks for tracking cookies, which i assume pogo would have to use, and i have yet to catch one from pogo. I believe whatever they used to monitor the software installed on my computer my firewall would block or my spyware would pick up.
I also do not believe that if they had the capability of actually determining if you had cheated, and had proof, that they would refuse to show you the proof, which is what they supposedly do. I myself have never won. I have also never given out my password and have never cheated. Well, I have occasionally googled letters for scrabble words when in a jam, but other than that i have not.
I honestly hope to one day win and have the win denied for cheating, then i will know for sure that they are lying, and I will start a massive class action lawsuit requiring all fees be returned and the site be free only from here on out. Until then, I can only base it on what others say. I believe pogo is the cheat.
February 10th, 2010 at 12:29 am
Hi, Chana. I have been researching Pogo and I find them very, very sketchy. I refuse to pay to play games, but since they have ‘jackpots’ it can be justified, I suppose.
Everything you have said about there being no tracking cookies makes a lot of sense to me.
I am taking criminal law classes at a university and while you can file a civil lawsuit against them, you need substantial proof first. So be sure to get that. A program that proves you did not cheat but monitoring all the activity on your computer. Also, if anyone ever gets this jackpot, and does not get paid because of this ‘you cheated by using a bot program’, and you did not, you need to contact a local newspaper. Reporters eat up this sort of thing.
I really can’t wait for this website to pay back everything they should pay back to the members that have won. I highly doubt all of these people are lying about all of this that is going on……
March 5th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Do you have to be a certain age to use this?