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Yesterday I was scammed by a Google Play app which looks exactly like the original Exodus one. They used original screenshot, original description, the name is "Exodus Wallet" while the true app is "Exodus Crypto Wallet". This is the scam link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exoduswallet.exoduswalletmanager

While I literally reported them 2 minutes after being scammed (so like 24 hours ago) Google didn't remove it from the Google Play yet!

My wallet was emptied, luckily I didn't have very much crypto on it but I'd like to sue Google nevertheless for allowing such a thing on their store.

So please if you are a lawyer on this matter on you can suggest me someone write me in private.

And stay away from that app!

Thank you

I check the review of the application its look likes they got a good ratings there .

But its looks like just fake rating you should also give negative rate and give feedback to the app so they will not have any victim again.

For download they only got 50  download as of today so its only means this is just a new application make in app store,.

You should always be aware about simple things like how many people use the app before using it or transferring your money.

I know and always did like you said, BUT you know airplanes crash even if they are best way to travel, shit happens for many reasons. In "normal" condition I'd never use that app BUT it happened. Nevertheless those kind of SCAM should never pass trough, even a stupid filter checking just apps names similarities and their download rate should point immediately to possible scam apps. YET it seems Google Experts Geniuses are not able to implement a filter like that.

The installs now are up to 100+ and it's very alarming that there will be more people that they can scam. How did you reported the app? have you looked into this?

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/contact/takedown

If you download wallet apps, make sure that you look first to their official websites as they are putting the correct and official link for their apps.

Send a message and inform exodus what happened to you so they can help taking down that fake app.

https://support.exodus.io/

This is the legit app with 100,000+ installs.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=exodusmovement.exodus

Hello, I already did all of the things you said. Google guy keeps on writing to me saying "their experts are working on the case and they will let me know asap" but while we speak the app is still there. I'm starting to think they will silently remove it and never admit their responsibility. Exodous guy was very kind and told me they did their part to take the app down but again it's STILL THERE!

EDIT: they just take the app down at last

I should say congratulations to you. This was made due to your efforts and experience. I'm hoping that google play should be stricter next time if they have been receiving tons of reports from these fraudsters. They should get the hint from these reports and do something in filtering listing into their platform.

Because once an app of these scammers is removed, they'll create a new fake and imitation from the popular wallets or exchanges to scam new users again.

Reviews can be faked. People can buy review. Or people can use bots to review their apps. Its not that hard. Pay few cents and everyone will jump in to make some fake reviews.
You will see similarities between those reviews which will help you distinguish the fake ones.
And why would you download a well known app that has only 50 downloads (downloads can be faked too though :( )?
Well, to be honest, the guy who downloaded should be blamed too for being careless.

Review can be fake on the google play store or the project owner can use an airdrop which will make people do hype review about the project. However, the topic used by the OP seems to be misleading because it was pointing to exodus wallet not the scammer and even if the wallet downloaded is genuine, mobile wallet is among vulnerable wallet.
In the meantime, the OP himself can save others from been the victim of this scammer by making negative review about it on playstore while he report the situation to real Exodus wallet team.

Its point to the application scam wallet which is he use to store his btc a fake wallet.

The application is down already and we can't see  it in Google play  it's a good so no one else to fall victim to this fake application.

Google should be sensitive for everyapplication develop to the platform before accepting it to be available in Google play store so the platform will not be used for future scam.

Thank you @op for reporting this both in Google and here on forum so that people can be careful, there are many applications in the Google play store of which it is now possible to have some with bad intentions, am sure the Google team will do what is required to prevent this from happening again.

You  best choice is t continue reporting on google to pull it down. send a mail to google and produce enough evidence that it is a scam app. you can also contact exodus project about another app jeopardizing there product. with that, google might listen and remove it. else you can not do anything and it will get worst. person, i use the Mewwallet for my ethereum transcation.

There are many scam apps on playstore and also scam extensions on chrome store. Sorry for being a victim and thanks for reporting this. If the developer of the app can be fetched out by Google, this will be great. Wish you the best in getting your funds back.

Now, I think I will always take all normal precautions before using any wallet app on playstore.
Like checking reviews of other users
Checking the developer info
Checking related apps and so on.

Yes youre right playstore has a lot of fake and scam apps ,  better to read first all the reviews and dont just donwload  without reading the comments.  If you find a fake app on google report them immediately.

You can also report them if you find one. That's what OP did when found out that the app was a scam and a copy of Exodus. You're right that there are many of them and problem is with google play, they don't check those apps that they publish.

Whether it is legit or not and a scam, they don't have precautions or additional requirements for them to add it into their store. A lot of apps have been reported to them and they have to be aware of it but still, no actions from them although they remove those apps if they are reported.

had  already  checked  also.
Obviously fake  ratings  because exaggerated  and  nothing in compliance about the ratings.so basically  this  is shit site.
Actually  what He need to do always is to BOOKMARK each important  site  that  you  will be needing  to visit  from time to time.

I'll keep saying this, Google needs to be strict about the app they add to their store. Especially Finance apps. They aren't like Apple.
Better to go to official site to download rather than use search bar in Play Store because one might get list of apps with same name there.

I checked the link but it keeps loading on Play Store without any result. Seems it has or delisted or something. Can someone confirm?

Everyone learns from the mistakes of strangers and friends. A very unpleasant situation. But why didn't you check the Information on the official website of exodus about the availability of such an application on other platforms? ???

I would also add: never deal with your cryptos while you are tired! Because that's what happened: I didn't sleep the night before, I was really tired and my brain was working at 10% -> shit happened

As I said I was really tired and wasn't paying attention at all at what I was doing.

Just to let you know that actually Google didn't remove it, but was the "developer" who delisted it, I guess because his scam wasn't downloaded anymore (I wrote a review saying t was a scam).
Also Google never got back to me to answer to this simple question: was the scam doing something else? Was my phone compromised? Never a answer.
When I told them I was going to sue them they just disappeared.
Doing some search on the web (with DuckDuckGo because Google will never show these results to you) I saw that almost every year there is a Exodus scam on Google Play (maybe always the same "app") and guess what: Google doesn't give a shit! They just don't care!
I must admit I was a little bit shocked by their attitude, but the reality is that on Google Play you can find any kind of scam and publishing them is really a piece of cake.

I guess I learnt my lesson in the hardest way

there are tons of apps like that available on Playstore and I personally never wallet or market use the apps because I know it will only make a loss. the scammers do various ways to fool the victims including using the application in Playstore. yeah we have to be careful and we must stay away from fraudulent applications.

I am sorry for you lost buddy , but that's not the only application copied on Google play store thats why we need to always be aware before downloading any application in Google store . Since we have an idea already that Google doesn't review any application before it can be downloadable by user's we need to became  much more careful now.

I no longer find this app at google play. It seems they have been accused and the application has been removed by moderators. The advice for you is to never use shady applications. Please go to the official website and download from the links there

Google play has removed the app after it was reported and you can read that on the first page as OP has said that it was removed. It's not just an accused app but it's an actual scam app that's trying to get victims but good thing, it was removed.

Newbies who don't ask to anyone and just search apps on google play store on their own can't be blamed. They don't do research as they search a legit and official app that they have to install.

I'm sure they did not find the link in the official website of Exodus, they just Google it,of course we all know scammers are using legit advertising to scam people, so never rely on the search engine because the results show some links that you mistakenly link to the official site when actually these are ads used by scammers.

I dont really trust that much when it comes on installing something in my phone even if its  on legit sources like Google play and other app markets out there.
Im not saying that its totally cant be trusted but we know the tendencies or chances that you can possible fall out into scam. People are just way too lazy when it comes to verifying things up
and do carelessly installing without even minding on the risk behind. Hackers/scammers etc. will find always a loophole and ways to scam people thats why self
awareness and common sense will surely be a great thing to have from time to time.

You have to look at the review and make your comment there that is negative. Warn people on what you experienced also send a message to App owners of the scam that is going on in Google
 

google should make a hard review before allowing apps on thier store to prevent scammers . Last time i donwnloaded a mirroring apps but all of them is fake and full of ads.

@Mahanton, I'm the same as you. I'm not confident installing any app on my phone unless I do really trust it and verified that it's from the legit source and developer of that app or the company itself.

It's the best safety measure to avoid downloading and installing apps that you are unsure of. And for the wallets which will be the holder of your crypto funds, double check the app and source. Always go to the authorized and legit wallet provider you are about to download, search it on web.

thank for the information you with this announcement thread, I am became more careful to use the crypto wallet on google play.
but it looks like the link you provided has not work or has been deleted

I also wanted to recommend the review but I felt If the review can be faked as stated and more are given than the report review what other means can be used to report such app for early response or pull down?

Always make sure that the app you are installing is the real app in google play there are lots of fake apps so always be allert and be careful on installing app that are related to money (FUNDS) this can steal your sensitive information

Someone once told me that google have removed all scam apps from their playstore but that's not true because few apps looks genuine enough and they will pass goggle verification without been detected, anything applications that have to do with money you must not download from playstore but through official website

Who's that person that told you that all of the scam apps have been removed by Google? He's guessing and didn't see the real thing of these rampant scams that Google can't terminate them once and for all. They are allowing the new scams to be registered in their platform which shouldn't be from the start.

They are not strengthening the verification process for the listing of these apps to their google play. Google is also the owner of Youtube which the scam advertisements are not yet stopped, they should be alarmed with those.