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If you want to know what made Madoff do it, you can try playing someone like him in a new game for cell phones called, predictably, Made Off. The game allows you to rob, cheat and steal from innocent investors to earn cellupoints (instead of cash), according to its maker Cellufun, which has, hilariously, filed this one under Social Games. The cellupoints can then be used to purchase things in Cellufun's
July 1, 2009
Christina Mucciolo
If you want to know what made Madoff do it, you can try playing someone like him in a new game for cell phones called, predictably, “Made Off.” The game allows you to “rob, cheat and steal from innocent investors” to earn cellupoints (instead of cash), according to its maker Cellufun, which has, hilariously, filed this one under “Social Games.” The cellupoints can then be used to purchase things in Cellufun's mobile virtual world — Watches? Yachts? Perhaps.
