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Since almost every popular crypto wallet has its fake version on Google Play, I decided to make this list in order to make it easier for everyone to report them, going with the logic that if more of us report the fake app Google might react faster and remove them, making less people loose money. This list will be constantly updated so please report all cases in which app is still available on Google Play. I plan to check current status very often, so in case you see wallet status is marked as "active" please report them. It will only take a minute of your time and it might save someone from making a huge mistake. To make reporting easier I also provided direct link to the app, just please make sure not to download the app. Important: Always download apps directly from developers website!
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January 11, 2021, 06:59:52 AM |
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One more fake wallet appeared on Google Play, and this time it's Atomic. I honestly never used that one, but since it's often used by scammers I guess it is pretty popular among android users. App was released last week but it's already full of fake reviews. I contacted Atomic via Telegram, asking them to report the fake app directly and share the warning for their users, but somehow I doubt that they will do the latter. Please report the app, it will only take a minute of your time as it might save someone, and remember to always download the apps directly from developers website! Real wallet https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.atomicwallet Fake wallet https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valades.cobetane |
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January 11, 2021, 08:31:19 PM |
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The increase in the number of fake wallet apps from 2020 to now on Google Play should be a strong warning to anyone involved in the world of cryptocurrency. We all have the potential to suffer losses if we are not careful in installing this wallet application. The increase in the price of bitcoin has prompted scammer to carry out their duties in various ways including creating fake wallet application. My little advice to the OP, I think you should enter the original app download link for every fake wallet you find and have reported in the thread without having to enter the code so that users can easily reach the site and download the app. Only the fake wallet download link should be disabled. My mean: Original wallet download link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.atomicwalletFake wallet download link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valades.cobetane By the way, the best idea right now to prevent people from getting into trouble with the fake wallet in circulation is to report it for deletion by the google team. Only a small task will be of significant use to any cryptocurrency user. I agree with you. |
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January 12, 2021, 04:22:56 AM |
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This is why I don't use mobile app for my crypto wallet not only that it's risky because of this fake wallet but once your phone lost or got stolen, you might also lose your funds or holdings, also because of apps that are sometimes injecting something for backdoor access to your phone, I'm am more on desktop wallets and or hardware wallets.
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January 12, 2021, 06:41:52 AM |
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Google team are so irresponsible, this is not the first time that the listed fake wallets on playstore have been reported, last year many exposed these wallets and google team did nothing about them, to all google playstore users I want you to know that you are on your own, make sure you stop downloading crypto apps from playstore, this is the only way to solve this issue right now
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January 12, 2021, 07:13:10 PM |
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As a total newbie in this topic (I use a couple mobile wallets since ages and I haven't researched the field since then), first of all, thanks for the warning, I hope you help many beginners who read this first; but as an iPhone user, are there fake wallets too in Apple's App Store? Someone could assume that there aren't, as you are talking here just about Google, and how badly they manage their store. I think that it is not impossible but it is harder for iOS as they keep higher standards for the Apps to get accepted; but this is just a subjective opinion, I would like to hear it from someone who knows more than me on the topic (as i stated, I am still a newbie  ). Thanks in advance for the answer, and thanks again to Rikafip for the OP's warning. |
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January 12, 2021, 10:43:03 PM |
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Nice thread OP, this fake wallets are still there and beginners and help section is just a small section for the bitcoiners to notice. We may not fa into it but there are really bitcoiners that fall into this phishing wallet app and a simple download of those fake wallet could be mean loses of possible thousanda of bitcoins depending on the users capability to owning bitcoin at the time he uses the fake wallets. Hopefully, this will be seen to all though B&H again is a small section. Is it allowed to post the same topic and content to another board or section?
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January 12, 2021, 10:53:42 PM |
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Important: Always download apps directly from developers website!
Very good thread by OP. That's what we should do when we want to download a wallet. There are many new investors in the market and they are not aware of these kid of scams. Personally, I use iPhone and in AppStore there are not so many fake and shitty apps. I have never faced with a problem like that and I hope nobody loses their money because of these kind of scams. |
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January 13, 2021, 03:57:48 AM |
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This is a very good initiative. This list must play an important role to warn us all. But there are more fake wallet on google playstore. You should add it on this topic. I think following topic will help you. [Warning] List of fake wallets/apps on Google Play. |
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Rikafip (OP)
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January 13, 2021, 08:12:28 AM |
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As a total newbie in this topic (I use a couple mobile wallets since ages and I haven't researched the field since then), first of all, thanks for the warning, I hope you help many beginners who read this first; but as an iPhone user, are there fake wallets too in Apple's App Store? While making this list, out of curiosity I also checked iOS App store as I wanted to see situation there, and I found only one case of a suspicious app that could be a fake wallet, but I wasn't 100% sure. I will occasionally check iOS and might update this list with those apps as well, if needed. I think that it is not impossible but it is harder for iOS as they keep higher standards for the Apps to get accepted; but this is just a subjective opinion, I would like to hear it from someone who knows more than me on the topic (as i stated, I am still a newbie ). That's true, chances of fake wallet appearing on iOS are significantly lower than on Google Play, but it can still happen of course. No system is infallible and mistakes are bound to happen, but with Google it can't be call an exception or anomaly when they have at least 13 fake wallets at the moment. Worst of all, it usually takes them couple of weeks to remove those fake apps. Important: Always download apps directly from developers website!
Personally, I use iPhone and in AppStore there are not so many fake and shitty apps. I have never faced with a problem like that and I hope nobody loses their money because of these kind of scams. It's true that iOS is generally safer, but I still wouldn't recommend getting something as sensitive as crypto wallet from App Store. Getting them directly from developers website is certainly a better option, just make sure that you are not entering a phishing website as that can happen too. People usually don't care much about their own safety until it's too late. All those reported fake wallets are already removed from Google Play, that's why they weren't included as I see no point adding them retroactively and cluttering the list if apps were removed months or maybe a year ago. I only included reports of the apps that were still available while making this topic. In case i missed some report and app is still available, pleasen mention it here and it will be updated asap. |
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January 13, 2021, 08:35:07 AM |
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Yeah, there is so many fake crypto application that we can see in Google play store, I am hoping that they will do something about this thing because there are so many newbies in the world of crypto that may become a victim from this kind of scams. Always be careful about downloading any apps even those not related to the crypto wallet because installing a fake application may lead your money at risk
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January 13, 2021, 09:28:02 AM |
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Yeah, there is so many fake crypto application that we can see in Google play store, I am hoping that they will do something about this thing because there are so many newbies in the world of crypto that may become a victim from this kind of scams. Always be careful about downloading any apps even those not related to the crypto wallet because installing a fake application may lead your money at risk
Don't know why google let this kind of apps listed on them maybe they didn't do any verification before they add an apps to their store and its really dangerous for newbies if they pick the wrong app since they might lose everything they have. That's why I suggest everybody to report since maybe this one could help them erase the fake apps. And we should not really download a apps everywhere since there's many incident of phising attack happens and its a huge mess for us if we became a victim of this kind of antics again. |
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January 13, 2021, 09:36:25 AM |
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crazy could not it be banned?
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January 13, 2021, 10:38:02 AM |
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Most of the links I have clicked have been deleted, so you can adjust the status in the table.
Unfortunately, continuing to update such lists means that we fight in the dark and thus scammers are one step ahead of us, it is better to teach beginners how to download the wallet from a trusted site (verify the authenticity of the signature,) report scam wallets, and thus we have added more strengths.
The bright side is that most of these fake wallets contain less than 10 downloads.
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January 13, 2021, 11:06:53 AM |
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Most of the links I have clicked have been deleted, so you can adjust the status in the table.
If you try to access the fake wallets link via android mobile phone you will see that they are still there. For some reason few links are not working when accessing through PC. Unfortunately, continuing to update such lists means that we fight in the dark and thus scammers are one step ahead of us, it is better to teach beginners how to download the wallet from a trusted site (verify the authenticity of the signature,) report scam wallets, and thus we have added more strengths. That's why I mentioned in the first post that wallets should be downloaded primarily via developers website. But the fact is that majority of people are not doing that, so those that can see the list can help and report the apps and spread the awareness. The more of us report, better the chances that Google will remove them in the reasonable timeframe, or at least I like to think that. Fighting scammers will always be a whack-a-mole game, that's how it is. The bright side is that most of these fake wallets contain less than 10 downloads.
From what I could see, all but 2 have over 100, while 2 Jaxx wallets have more than 5,000 downloads. And basically all of them have fake reviews. |
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January 13, 2021, 11:09:54 AM |
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As a total newbie in this topic (I use a couple mobile wallets since ages and I haven't researched the field since then), first of all, thanks for the warning, I hope you help many beginners who read this first; but as an iPhone user, are there fake wallets too in Apple's App Store? While making this list, out of curiosity I also checked iOS App store as I wanted to see situation there, and I found only one case of a suspicious app that could be a fake wallet, but I wasn't 100% sure. I will occasionally check iOS and might update this list with those apps as well, if needed. Thank you Rikafip, understood: much safer for now, but not infallible. I suppose it's better to be safe than sorry: I'll be cautious the next time I need to install a new wallet on my device. I think that it is not impossible but it is harder for iOS as they keep higher standards for the Apps to get accepted; but this is just a subjective opinion, I would like to hear it from someone who knows more than me on the topic (as i stated, I am still a newbie ). That's true, chances of fake wallet appearing on iOS are significantly lower than on Google Play, but it can still happen of course. No system is infallible and mistakes are bound to happen, but with Google it can't be call an exception or anomaly when they have at least 13 fake wallets at the moment. Worst of all, it usually takes them couple of weeks to remove those fake apps. Keep up with the good work  let us know how we can help, maybe opening reports for those apps, or maybe you have different, better ideas instead. The more we are, the better, I hope. Edit: it seems that we have had good luck with fast removals this time. |
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January 13, 2021, 10:36:33 PM |
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Thank you Rikafip, understood: much safer for now, but not infallible. I suppose it's better to be safe than sorry: I'll be cautious the next time I need to install a new wallet on my device.
The easy ways to install any wallets and to prevent you are installing fake wallet by visiting their website. All companies will give a link to download their official apps from their website, so you will be safe to install. When I'm not sure to install any apps, I always open the sites, just need to spent a minutes to make sure we are using real apps |
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January 15, 2021, 11:39:29 PM
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You may want to add this to your list: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.kodular.yassine_benajem99.MyEtherWallet  and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.kodular.yassine_benajem99.Trust_Wallet  from the same author |
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