So you have found a group or page promising you thousands of Farm Cash, Pink Elephants or massive farm expansions? All you have to do is join and invite all of your friends? Wow this is great! Except it’s not, it’s a total scam. Read on to find out why and what you can do to prevent this!
This guide was created to prevent users of FarmVille from being scammed and cheated by the massive influx of fake groups on Facebook. ALL of the FarmVille groups designed to get (items, Farm Cash, unreleased items, extra coops, etc…) are fakes. The only way to get these things (you can’t get unreleased or extra coops, this is cheating and/or using glitches) is to play the game and buy Farm Cash from the official FarmVille game buying section or get your friends to gift you items from the game (none of the Facebook apps claiming to gift villas or anything else are real!) and lastly to enter OFFICIAL contests that are ONLY available on the official Zynga/FarmVille forums located here: FarmVille Forums
It isn’t hard to work out the fakes if you know what to look for, any of the below are obvious signs that this is a fake group.
- Become a fan/member and suggest/Invite All your Friends (any group requiring this is fake and not worth your time)
- Once (insert random number) of your friends join you will receive the item/s
- If you do not invite friends you will not get (random item being promised)
- Over half of your friends must join
- Please wait up to 1 day for (insert random “free” thing) to be applied
- Please wait up to (random number) of hours for (promised item)
- Join to unlock (26×26, 30×30 or 40×40, etc…) farms!
- Join and receive a Pink Elephant! (Or any other unreleased animals and/or items)
- Etc… If it looks too good to be true, IT IS.
All of the groups that do these are fakes designed to spam you with junk or get you to buy fake programs. Some people sell the groups once they get thousands of members. So keep an eye out for all of these signs and you can avoid being taken advantage of. If you are in doubt, just check here and ask.
Note: There are plenty of groups designed to help you do things like barn raising, posting links to share and helping you out with tips and adding friends. These are legit and the main reason being that they simply rely on the game sharing system, no other applications and no need to “invite all your friends” to the group in order to do stuff.
Note: Some sites (like ours) offer legit contests that can award you prizes like a free Mystery Box. We do this buy sending them through the game and spending real money on these ourselves. We do not offer everyone who visits our site free Farm Cash or gifts, you will always need to use good judgment in deciding what is and isn’t real. If you cannot tell, feel free to ask us or ask in the official forums for advice. Always remember the adage that if it sounds or looks too good to be true, it almost certainly is. 
FarmVille Secrets
You are bound to come across this (and several other similar FarmVille books) anywhere you look on Facebook or FarmVille sites. Many of the free farm cash groups/pages are designed with no other purpose than to point you to these FarmVille Secrets sites. They are offering a book of tips and secrets that will propel you to the top in days! Unfortunately there are no secrets to be had, only some basic tips and such that you can get for free on many sites including our own. We recommend avoiding these since they want you to pay money and are basically lying about what the books contain. No matter the price they offer, it isn’t worth it!
Here are some examples of the “book” they will be trying to sell you, remember these are by no means the only ones. There are no official strategy or cheat books currently and most non official ones are no more than scams or PDF files you will be emailed with basic stuff you could find here or anywhere on the internet.
Note: While we do not suggest buying these as it is hard to determine if they are legit or will even send you ANYTHING, you may notice advertisements for some of these on our site via Google ads or otherwise. We do not screen our ads (unless there is pg-13+ content in them) and do not refuse legitimate offers to run these ads on our site to pay for hosting. We suggest you decide wisely based on the information we have provided if you still want to purchase them.
i REALLY LIKE THIS SITE BECAUSE YOU GIVE MORE INFO ON FV THAN FARMVILLE ITSELF,tHANKS
The gifting button is below the co-op farming button, I will push the gift button and the popup will open the co-op screen. After about 20 attempts , I give up. My hair is turning gray.
FOR THE GIFT BOX I USED TO GET SO MAD AT IT I WAS GOING TO QUIT, BUT IF YOU CLICK TWICE ON IT IT WILL OPEN.
what about this farmville extreme manager, is this real or is it a fake? I paid for it and I did get a couple of the things, but the main reason I purchased it was for the automatic harvesting and planting, feeding and harvesting, and now I can’t even pull up the program.
I have been fertilizing my neighbors farms and I have been getting messages that I have found fuel for myself and also for the person who’s farm I am fertilizing. I recently got a message from one of my neighbors who told me it is a “scam.” I told her that it was through farmville and that I thought it wouldn’t be a scam for this reason. Do you have any opinions?
did u get an answer to ur question about fertilizing? that is not a scam we can find fuel on others farms when fertilizing
I had 60 chickens in my huge coop and now I have 29??? Is someone stealing my chickens? Have they died? (sob) Anyone else had this problem? Thanks.
If a post on your wall says ANYTHING but “via FarmVille” beside the comment button then it’s a scam. That’s the easiest way to spot them on your wall posts.
So why after people find a Queen Bee on their farm is THIS being posted?
Queen Bee Bonus
Judy has found a Queen Bee. Now Judy can start to build their Bee Hive.
In order to start your Bee Hive you must have a Queen Bee. Collect your Queen Bee here
how do you earn fv cash with out paying for it I used to get cash but it has been months i have not recieved it, Thank You
why does my computer freeze alot only when i play FarmVille the sceen goes blank or turns black then closes facebook down im frustrated
I’ve also lost farm cash, It just seems to disappear, I really don’t keep that close track of my coins, as I do make purchases with them. I haven’t been playing that long, but seem to stall at certain levels for a long time. I didn’
t know where to complain about these things, I just continue playing the game and hope things get caught up with eventually.
i get so tired of people crying and complaing about the snag bar if you dont like it dont befriend ppl who use it, otherwise keep your crying about the people who do use it to yourself. GET A LIFE its a game you plat your freakin way and ill play mine