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« on: June 12, 2017, 04:05:29 pm »

News: Ad loophole in App Store search is letting scammers promote expensive, useless apps



                
            
               A new post on Medium shows just how easy it is for scammers to use Apple’s App Store Search Ads to dupe users into paying hundreds of dollars for undelivered services from useless apps. Author Johnny Lin came across one app in particular — “Mobile protection :Clean & Security VPN” — that raised his attention with multiple misspellings and poor grammar in its listing, but still somehow managed to take in $80,000 a month in…

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