Phantom/Scam challenges?

I've been getting loads of challenges regarding a new game (which I will leave un-named but lets say it involves matchsticks) and I'm starting to suspect that the senders of these challenges didn't actually send them.
Reason being is that I just received a challenge from someone whose farm name specifically states that they will delete challengers, I also have received challenges from people who never usually send them including a RL friend who stated she had never sent such a challenge, and that she had received a similar one from me that I had also never sent.

So apologies to anyone who receives such a challenge from myself, I can assure you that I don't challenge my HD friends unless I know 100% that they play that game and have challenged me on it in the past.
I was considering deleting some of the challengers in my friends list as the number of challenges I'vs had for this game was getting annoying but I've decided to hold an amnesty on deletion to be on the safe side - don't want to lose good neighbours over some dumb scam.

I've guessed this was happening too. I think the games are sending challenges on our behalf without approval. I even wrote a post about it a while ago (included below). I remember seeing a banner saying someone beat my challenge once, but I had never sent one out so how could they? That's when I knew for sure something was up. The game that said someone beat my challenge was not a matchstick game...


http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ght=Challenged

Wow, thanks for bringing this to light Schmoo. I'm so glad I didn't delete some players. I was contemplating it!
I did get a matchstick game challenge from you recently....but now I know better!

I keep getting challenges too - same game - I only play Hay Day online and all others game offline. So if anyone get challenges from my gc name - it was not I who send them. It would be very annoying getting deleted if you do not send them yourselves.

Hi Schmoo, I didn't get a challenge from you but I got 6 challenges from different friends, all from the game 'cross matchsticks' ( I will just name it here because I think they are scamming people)

I will say if someone gets a challenge from me with that game, I don't play it, never downloaded it, and don't plan to.

I've got 6 within the past 3 hours. Out of that 6, four was from the same person at the same time.

Been trying to find a way to report this spammy app to Apple but not getting anywhere :( I mean Apple must have approved it so they can remove it too surely?

I just got 2 matchstick challenges from new "friends" just added last week. If I had not of read this and been aware I would have deleted them. So thank you.

Huge, huge problem. I don't think Apple is aware of this. This is something Apple will never tolerate. I've tried everything even changing my profile pic to include a note telling those players to delete the game, but to no avail.

Turning off GC notification was the best solution. I still get challenges but at least now I'm not notified by that annoying alert/banner every single time.

Yeah I received challenges from a few games in the past day or so and figured they had to be wrong because the friends they came from have it listed in their signatures or in GC that they do not accept challenges.

I changed my sig to include I don't send challenges so Please don't delete me. :)