Is the AppNana hack for real?

At a certain moment I came across this web page; that claims to have hacked the AppNana app so one could have unlimited nanas.
Now that does sounds too good to be true.

I don't dare to mess around with my account, and personally I think this is the equivalent of stealing. So I would not recommend it to anyone or anybody.

Still, it is such an intriguing fact, that until this day I'm very curious if this is really possible?

Let me know in the comments what your opinion and/or experience is?

Is Mapiz, the creator of AppNana, safe?

Browsing to a non-existing page like http://s.mapiz.com/appjoy reveals (on 29-Oct-2014) that nginx/1.1.19 is being used. However, Nginx 1.6.2 is the current stable version.

This might make the Mapiz website possibly vulnerable.

An e-mail has been send to support@Mapiz.com at 29-10-2014 to inform them.
However, no reply was received yet.

Comments or advisories are welcome!

AppNana daily return is tricky!

There are restrictions to the daily Nana's; one need to earn enough points from offers and/or invitation codes to keep qualifying for the Daily Nanas.

AppNana claims a daily return to give you a daily bonus of 400 Nanas. However in an earlier post I found out that after 6 times the daily bonus won't work as such any longer; one need to have at least 4000 Nanas by the Nana offers or invite 3 friends.
Further more, the word 'daily' might not be exactly accurate here. The 'daily' reward is granted after 24 hours after the previous daily payout. So for example checking your AppNana app tonight at 11pm and tomorrow at 6am won't count as 2 daily visits! So it is rather a 24 hour countdown after the last reward rather than a daily visit. If you wait longer than 24 hours to log in, the new 24 hour countdown will start from that time on, not from your previous time expiration. To me it makes sense, but it's a little unexpected catch!

Which languages are supported in AppNana?

The following list of countries is supposed to be supported for the AppNana app (based on version 3.0.1 and in alphabetical order):

 Australia


Brazil

Canada

France

Germany

Great Britain / United Kingdom

India

Italy

Spain

The Netherlands

United States of America

Getting to 15,000 Nanas might be harder than you think

In my previous post "Appnana beginners tip: get to 15000-nanas" I claimed it would take one 12 days to achieve the 15,000 Nanas milestone by just having the daily bonus.

Wrong! That was a mistake, because one needs to earn at least 4000
Nanas in points.
In the example account displayed on the right I started off with a default balance of 10,400. For 6 days I managed to get 400 Nanas in daily bonus. Then at day 7 it checked if I gathered 4000 Nanas via the 'Get Nanas' page offers. Or have 3 friends that enter my invitation code. Again, I need more friends! Add my code n6215050 and I will try to return the favor as much as I can!

AppNana friends invitations from n6215050

Dear readers,

I have to be honest: I am having troubles fulfilling my friend requests exchange. Each time I reach out one time to a friend, I need 5 other friends to fill in my invitation code.
So, I need a lot of friends! I'm figuring a lot of people must have this problem. So I'm looking for ways to improve this. Feel free to leave your invitation code in the comments section of this blog article. I will definitely do my best to reward as much friends in this article as possible.
If you do post your invitation code here, I do expect you use my invitation code n6215050 in return.

Update: I'm getting a ton of friends at reddit.com/r/AppNana ; read my blog post about Reddit.

Who is Mapiz, the company behind AppNana?

Since I'm curious by nature, I wanted to find out more about Mapiz, the company that is behind the AppNana app. However, there is not so much to find....
The website mapiz.com is more or less a placeholder for appnana.com and it re-routes visitor to the same generic appnana website. That's a dead end right there.

Interesting though is that on appnana.com website the Terms of Service & Privacy Policy refer to s.mapiz.com/appnana/terms.html

While searching through a search engine on therm 'mapiz company' I came across several records that claimed that the company was founded in 2009, but I could not verify that.

I found on this interesting page trademarkia.com/appnana-85885379.html the information that the APPNANA brand trademark was deposited by Mapiz, Inc. in Covina, CA, 91722 as follows:

On Monday, March 25, 2013, a U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for APPNANA by Mapiz, Inc., Covina, CA 91722. The USPTO has given the APPNANA trademark serial number of 85885379. The current federal status of this trademark filing is REGISTERED. The correspondent listed for APPNANA is Jason R Lee of Mapiz, Inc., 688 N. Rimsdale Ave., #61, Covina CA 91722 . The APPNANA trademark is filed in the category of Computer & Software Products & Electrical & Scientific Products . The description provided to the USPTO for APPNANA is Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application for use with mobile phones, cellular phones, laptop and tablet computers, and desktop computers used to disseminate advertising and promotional information for the goods and services of others and that allows users to download free utility, productivity, gaming applications, consumer information and surveys from third party vendors which allows users to receive incentive awards.

As I found out this guy has been busy: Jason R Lee filed 95 US Trademarks (one of them being AppNana, of course). Maybe he's just a guy in the middle. Or is Jason the original founder of AppNana?


On corporationwiki.com/California/Arcadia/mapiz-inc/102897814.aspx it is claimed:

Mapiz, Inc. filed as a Statement & Designation By Foreign Corporation in the State of California on Friday, October 28, 2011 and is approximately three years old, according to public records filed with California Secretary of State. The filing iscurrently active as of the last data refresh which occured on Sunday, June 22, 2014. A corporate filing is called a foreign filing when an existing corporate entity files in a state other than the state they originally filed in. This does not necessarily mean that they are from outside the United States.
Key People
Jun Guan serves as the PresidentJun Guan is also the registered agent for the company. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.

This could indicate that Jun Guan is the owner; he is located at: 688 N Rimsdale Ave Covina, CA 91722; but there are dozens of companies found on that same address:
corporationwiki.com/California/Covina/688-N-Rimsdale-Ave-Covina-CA-91722-a20333274.aspx#found
However, there is no mentioning of AppNana nor Mapiz on that page.