A fake app in apple app store stole his life savings in bitcoin

[slaman29]

Nothing new this is why we have Scam Accusations boards and more to keep awareness to the other member also to the people about the fake application this is the reason why other people give a bad image to the bitcoin or in other coins because of that application which is not a legit or reliable only thing they do is to scam mostly the beginners. To make sure it's safe it's better to research the application and double-check if this is the legit one else report immediately so google or another app store will remove this app. Also, check the developer if the same as the original. AFAIK Apple has better application security than the other brands because they focus on the security for their users.

No, Scam accusations is for the forum strictly. To warn people of services and people who you can't tell could be scammers.

Fake apps? Fake websites? You just have to do your own protections. Bookmark correct websites. Use a password manager so you never need to enter passwords on fake websites. And apps. The worst of it all. Download only verified apps.

[mk4]

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The ratio of Android and Apple users aside, the fact is, it is indeed harder to get shady apps(or apps in general to be verified) into the Apple ecosystem. I know this from experience and from the few app developers that I know. But of course, no matter how strict a platform is, it doesn't necessarily mean that shady stuff isn't guaranteed to get blocked and isn't going to get in.

tldr; Apple is doing far better than Google in terms of blocking shady apps; but nothing is truly 100% scam-safe.

[bittick]

For this reason we have to be more careful about downloading any app from google play store or apple store. Besides, google and apple should take necessary steps to remove this kind of fake app. We should remember that our asset is more important than an app.

I think inspecting app like this kinda hard and takes too much time. I wonder what kind of method they use to inspect and filter these app but I assume the go through the code and inspecting it whether automatically or manually but there's always hit and miss since in programming an implementation could have various form. At this point it's just better to download app directly from the official website of these wallets provider.

[Leviathan.007]

This one is a very common way to earn some bitcoin for scammers. They create an app and upload it on app store or google store and wait for some people to download and use the app. Imagine 100K people downloading and using the app, at lest 500 newbies will actually use and trust the app. Now if you consider only 10 bucks per victim this would be 5000 bucks in total just for creating an stupid app to scam some money from the newbies which is really bug amount of money. The way we can stand against these scammers if to start educating the newbies and teach them how to stay safe from the scammers.