Fake MEW on Google Play

[TryNinja]

Google should be blamed here for accepting such clone into it's app store. It's a finance app which would have cost some users some loses. I now see reason why iOS stores are very strict when accepting apps into in store, especially finance apps. No one would have spot the difference here except for the developer's name, download count and rating.

And that is unfortunately not always the case. The same people publishing those fake apps on the Play Store are also bomb reviewing the legit apps with 1 star reviews so they go down in the search list and also appear less legit. For example, the Ledger Live app has 1.7 stars ratings when just a few says ago, it had around 4 stars. Number of downloads are also extremely easy to bypass/spoof. You still need and iOS and Apple account to do all of that, while on Android, you just need to download an emulator or pay extremely cheap rates for farms to do that for you.

The only viable way of always going to the real app is by checking the url/full name of the app (e.g com.ledger.ledgerlive) which is unique per app and finding it through the company’s/app’s website rather than searching for it on the Play Store.

I have already talked about this. But Google has almost zero verification when letting new apps come to their store, while Apple is more of an perfectionist, doing deep analysis of what the app does and how it makes. I have published apps on both stores so I know how all of that works.

[JohnBitCo]

Google should be blamed here for accepting such clone into it's app store. It's a finance app which would have cost some users some loses. I now see reason why iOS stores are very strict when accepting apps into in store, especially finance apps. No one would have spot the difference here except for the developer's name, download count and rating.

It is very easy to list any app in google play store and there is not much check and balance by the google. That's why we see a lot of apps being listed in play store which are fake ones and some phishing ones to which are made to collect the data from the cell phone. I do not download much apps from playstore and use only the ones which i require mostly for my routine.

[Lordhermes]

Google should be blamed here for accepting such clone into it's app store. It's a finance app which would have cost some users some loses. I now see reason why iOS stores are very strict when accepting apps into in store, especially finance apps. No one would have spot the difference here except for the developer's name, download count and rating.

Google has turned into a place where noobs creates apps and integrate on it, enough is enough for google to promoting fake and fraudulent apps.
I would advice anyone that would like to access the legit MEW app to click through the website www.myetherwallet.com and follow procedure to download app.
I have been scammed before using this method, I inserted my private key in www.myétherwallet.com the site looks exactly as the former, the letter  é makes the different. So be careful with such website too.

[Harlot]

This Fake MEW wallet already has a lot of fake five star reviews in it, you will literally only see 1 liner reviews explaining how "excellent" the app is which isn't really typical for any reviewer to say. Usually when you will look at fake wallet apps you will see reviews of how they got scammed by this app well this app is showing differently since it is padded reviews and maybe they are just waiting the right moment to strike when a lot of people have downloaded the app, that's why reporting this app before a scam happens is something we need to do.

[nakamura12]

It's not like that we don't have a choice. We just need to be helpful and share these kind of fake or whatever shit it is to help other people be aware of such fake ones. We don't have a choice that we can make google play not to accept such fake apps. All we can do for now is to share and report these fake shits.

[Asuspawer09]

It seems like it easy to be qualified in Google or maybe they paid google to put their applications in the google extensions.

I've seen also mew in google play store but I've only used the website since it has a lot of security features making sure that the account is secured.

The best thing to do is stay away from this application since there are so many fake applications or wallets online even on google it easy to verified legitimate websites and application if your careful and knowledgeable.

[Mpamaegbu]

Indeed, look! I can't even believe that the fake app got a perfect 5 star from 146 feedbacks . And I think there are only two possible reasons for that: either the app perfectly copied the original or those 146 people are just paid to tell good reviews. Nonetheless, Play Store must act because what seems right now is that even them are not immune from malicious attacks. Such loopholes make me appreciate iOS more.

I must be in real big trouble then because I always look at reviews and star ratings before downloading any app from the playstore. So, this is an easy way to deceive users then? Before stumbling on this thread today, I tried to download Electrum wallet earlier but the rating was below my gauge of 4+ (in fact, it was around 3+), I quickly abandoned it. I know there are fake sites parading Electrum wallets and I didn't want to leave anything to chance.

This is getting dicey and I think the honourable thing will be for Google to step up its game on Android playstore. Failure to do that will sooner than later cause them loss of credibility and fan base.

[khaled0111]

I must be in real big trouble then because I always look at reviews and star ratings before downloading any app from the playstore.

You should never rely on reviews or ratings left by random people. Anyone can create a new account and leave a fake positive review and 5 stars rating. It can be manipulated easily.
Always get the app link from the official website.

This is getting dicey and I think the honourable thing will be for Google to step up its game on Android playstore. Failure to do that will sooner than later cause them loss of credibility and fan base.

I doubt this will happen any time soon as there are no serious competitors for them.

[Josefjix]

It is very easy to list any app in google play store and there is not much check and balance by the google. That's why we see a lot of apps being listed in play store which are fake ones and some phishing ones to which are made to collect the data from the cell phone. I do not download much apps from playstore and use only the ones which i require mostly for my routine.

Google has a long way to go regarding its nonchalant altitude allowing apps performing below what they put in their reviews. Tones of apps with a lot of mediocrity, it is appalling and saddening seeing phishing apps on Google even in 2020. I think iOS is way more secured than Google Play store.

[Rengga Jati]

This is really identical, almost the same as the original. The scammers really are increasingly developing in doing scams and also attracting prospective victims. It would be better if when you want to download and install the application it would be better if we directly go to the official website. There will usually be an application download link. From there we can find the official application.

[Twinkledoe]

It is very easy to list any app in google play store and there is not much check and balance by the google. That's why we see a lot of apps being listed in play store which are fake ones and some phishing ones to which are made to collect the data from the cell phone. I do not download much apps from playstore and use only the ones which i require mostly for my routine.

Google has a long way to go regarding its nonchalant altitude allowing apps performing below what they put in their reviews. Tones of apps with a lot of mediocrity, it is appalling and saddening seeing phishing apps on Google even in 2020. I think iOS is way more secured than Google Play store.

This is really saddening knowing that a lot of users are trusting google play. And most of the users are not checking the authenticity of the app. They will know that it is fake once they lost their money. I hope for those users that will find these apps as fake, report it immediately to prevent other users to be victimized by these scammers.

[TravelMug]

It is very easy to list any app in google play store and there is not much check and balance by the google. That's why we see a lot of apps being listed in play store which are fake ones and some phishing ones to which are made to collect the data from the cell phone. I do not download much apps from playstore and use only the ones which i require mostly for my routine.

Google has a long way to go regarding its nonchalant altitude allowing apps performing below what they put in their reviews. Tones of apps with a lot of mediocrity, it is appalling and saddening seeing phishing apps on Google even in 2020. I think iOS is way more secured than Google Play store.

This is really saddening knowing that a lot of users are trusting google play. And most of the users are not checking the authenticity of the app. They will know that it is fake once they lost their money. I hope for those users that will find these apps as fake, report it immediately to prevent other users to be victimized by these scammers.

And just imagine that Google and their platforms are accounted for 2/3 of desktop and mobile apps globally, they should be really upping their game as well, but sadly, it looks like they doing anything about it. The apps is still up and I'm sure they have received reports about it. But they are too slow to react and the scammers could have victimised noobs already.

Again, education is the key here. If we can't really take away ourselves from using Google, unless practice a good security to prevent us from falling from this cyber criminals.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

I'm really disappointed as to how Google really handle this case, it is still up in their Google Play which means chances are there could be newbies going to download it and be another numbers in the growing list of victims.

[Dorodha]

I'm really disappointed as to how Google really handle this case, it is still up in their Google Play which means chances are there could be newbies going to download it and be another numbers in the growing list of victims.

I also think sometime google handles this fake issue or related case resolved lately also sometimes google is confused about actual action, related to thinking google hesitated the properly action fake app/addons because google is not decided to find out real or fake or fake. when someone reported that then google tries to solve this fake issue.

[Mpamaegbu]

I doubt this will happen any time soon as there are no serious competitors for them.

I used to get app downloads on 9game but stopped because I was conscious of not getting malware and all that (though I never had any such scare), they have great apps there. You think they aren't a competition for playstore?

Always get the app link from the official website.

Sometimes people don't even know the official sites of what they're looking for.

On Electrum, I wonder why the team chose to be indifferent toward publicity and marketing of its site, letting the public know the original site is a .org, and not .com.

[mk4]

On Electrum, I wonder why the team chose to be indifferent toward publicity and marketing of its site, letting the public know the original site is a .org, and not .com.

It doesn't really matter that much though. If you open electrum.com, it automatically redirects to electrum.org anyway. And based on the whois information of both domains, it seems like it has one owner anyway.

[jademaxsuy]

I'm really disappointed as to how Google really handle this case, it is still up in their Google Play which means chances are there could be newbies going to download it and be another numbers in the growing list of victims.

yes, and there might already made a transfer of crypto from their wallet to the hacker's wallet. Good thing that it has been shared and discuss here so as to give caution to other users.

The problem is that there are other crytpo users that are not member of this forum and does not have any idea regarding on this fraud app.

The worst case is that this app coule be use for fraud like inviting someone to buy some crypto and store it in that kind of wallet which obviously design as a trap.

[cabron]

There weren't anyone yet postingg a thread about their tokens lost due to this fake mew, its number of downloads must be just from the dev to test. Its crazy why google store had not screen these app before makin it available for downloads.   If no one yet had lost money, the fake app failed.

[mk4]

There weren't anyone yet postingg a thread about their tokens lost due to this fake mew, its number of downloads must be just from the dev to test. Its crazy why google store had not screen these app before makin it available for downloads.   If no one yet had lost money, the fake app failed.

It would be unrealistic to assume that just because there have been no complaints and reports, that it automatically means that no one had lost money through this scam yet. Let's not forget that only a minority are involved in communities such as Bitcointalk and Reddit, and if they complain somewhere else, chances are, we might not even hear about it.

[UserU]

149 ratings, with mostly fake/ paid ones.

Those victims gonna RIP.