Google bans 8 crypto apps

[Oshosondy]

^ Exactly. It is worded like Google is against crypto.

Just another common thing on the Play Store though. Remove 10, there are 100 still hiding.

This is not wrong, even CryptoTab is not hiding, we all know it is a broswer but it is also a mining app, I am still wondering why it is not removed along these fake apps, even two CryptoTab apps are listed on playstore, the pro version require people to pay before use, we all know how bitcoin can not be mined on phone.

There are till many more, Google playstore is not a place we can visit and belief all we see, many apps are fake and the intention of the developers is to scam, some will elaborate to users that they will make profit from using the app and of which it is a lie.

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[UserU]

This is not wrong, even CryptoTab is not hiding, we all know it is a broswer but it is also a mining app, I am still wondering why it is not removed along these fake apps, even two CryptoTab apps are listed on playstore, the pro version require people to pay before use, we all know how bitcoin can not be mined on phone.

There are till many more, Google playstore is not a place we can visit and belief all we see, many apps are fake and the intention of the developers is to scam, some will elaborate to users that they will make profit from using the app and of which it is a lie.

Although I haven't tried CryptoTab (and I wouldn't want to), they do pay but man do they drain the shit out of your electricity with all that mining in the background.

From what I observed from GP's policy, apps that mine should be fine but shouldn't request any sort of payment upfront. That's why some legit ones like StormGain remain.

[glendall]

if you search there are many applications on google, google should give a permanent ban on the name of the application you mention
because similar applications can still be found today
Hopefully in the future we won't find applications like that again in the future

[Oshosondy]

From what I observed from GP's policy, apps that mine should be fine but shouldn't request any sort of payment upfront. That's why some legit ones like StormGain remain.

I am not really sure about this, I think they go indept to know the sites are actually fake and scamming people will be the reason, because if they remove those that ask money upfront, CryptoTab pro would have been removed.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pro.cryptotab.android

You can check it from the playstore, you will see that money is required before you will be able to download the app, the money is requested to increase the mining reward. I have never downloaded it before and I will never download it.

[UserU]

I am not really sure about this, I think they go indept to know the sites are actually fake and scamming people will be the reason, because if they remove those that ask money upfront, CryptoTab pro would have been removed.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pro.cryptotab.android

You can check it from the playstore, you will see that money is required before you will be able to download the app, the money is requested to increase the mining reward. I have never downloaded it before and I will never download it.

True that, but the base version remains free to use, and this Pro version does make it clear what it does (as it claims that "for everyone who wants to use all CryptoTab services directly on Android device")

Say if CT only makes one paid-only version (i.e. no free version), and lies about paying/ mining then it would violate the policies.

[fullhdpixel]

Google Play store bans 8 crypto mining application

It’s really good that they have taken action against these apps, although I am not the type that’s going to fall for any of these apps ever again. I have had the experience quite a few times. I have used these apps and the experience was very bad, what they promise is not what they give. You will spend a lot of time on these apps and at the end you’re just a tool to generate income for them, cause you’re going to be viewing lots of adverts on their platform (they are always filled with annoying adverts). They are just used to generate income for the devs and cheat the users, nothing much.

[UserU]

Yes that's right, I've installed Bitcoin miner and crypto holic, it's impossible to withdraw because we have to deposit a minimum of 100k satoshi, there are still many applications of this kind and I hope we are more active to report to Google if we encounter this application.

If you didn't deposit, then good for you. Most of the time they have to reach the threshold only to see the requirement so wasted time and effort.

[Silberman]

Whoever has a little bit of knowledge of mining, at least if they know the rules of mining, will never use such cloud mining apps. Because they can immediately say that these apps are fake and possibly contain malware. Because cloud mining is mainly ponzi scams. They ask you to invest and promise to give you a return against your deposit. All rules are same as ponzi but in the disguise of cloud mining.

I am happy that Google has finally taken some action agains these fake apps. They should have done it earlier.

And the worst part is that those people that downloaded apps like that got hit twice not only they are being scammed by people like this, it is also possible those apps contained malware of some kind and they lost any money they were holding in the wallets they installed in that smartphone. It is a shame that people are still falling for this when in this forum we have known for years that cloud mining can be nothing else but a scam.

[mrongoz_imut]

BitFunds - Crypto Cloud Mining
Bitcoin Miner - Cloud Mining
Bitcoin (BTC) - Pool Mining Cloud Wallet
Daily Bitcoin Rewards - Cloud Based Mining System
Bitcoin 2021
MineBit Pro - Crypto Cloud & btc miner
Ethereum (ETH) - Pool Mining Cloud
Crypto Holic - Bitcoin Cloud Mining
Actually, not only 8 fake cryptocurrency mining applications are scattered online. Based on Trend Micro Mobile App Reputation Service (MARS) data, there are more than 120 applications available online.
These applications actually do not have the ability to mine crypto money and trick users into watching ads in the application. I am very grateful to Google, for telling me, if I don't observe and learn well, I will definitely be stuck..

[conected]

Google Play store bans 8 crypto mining application

It’s really good that they have taken action against these apps, although I am not the type that’s going to fall for any of these apps ever again. I have had the experience quite a few times. I have used these apps and the experience was very bad, what they promise is not what they give. You will spend a lot of time on these apps and at the end you’re just a tool to generate income for them, cause you’re going to be viewing lots of adverts on their platform (they are always filled with annoying adverts). They are just used to generate income for the devs and cheat the users, nothing much.

- Watching ads and the creators getting paid is only a small part of these apps, there are quite a few that will announce a security upgrade and asking users to take pictures of personal documents as well as some cases will be a small fee, after quite a few days of hard work, perhaps many people don't regret a little bit of money to receive big money. It is possible that malicious code will also penetrate during the upgrade process and the phone contains a lot of privacy, Google Play probably also received a few tickets and reported such errors until making this decision to ban

[isaac_clarke22]

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I thought at first that their Play Store banned those legitimate apps again like back in the days when they banned Metamask. Kind of remembered that news, lol.

An informed individual wouldn't fall for these cloud mining schemes obviously, OP. I wouldn't even consider using any crypto-related app in my mobile, as my phone is usually exposed to many public networks/wifi. I wouldn't want for the same thing to ever happen again back in January 2020 where my account here got compromised, but I manage to secure it finally.
For my news source by the way: https://cointelegraph.com/news/google-play-lifts-ban-on-ethereum-browser-extension-metamask

[sirminesalot]

Google playstore have their own terms of services for uploading apps to their playstore. If the apps indicated to be stealing people data those apps will be taken down by them.
I have experienced that my developed apps been in playstore for 1 month and then get removed because in my apps there is an engine to track people device UUID in purpose of cheating preventing because that was an apps for employee's present.
So i think it's not about the crypto the google remove them, it's caused those apps break the rule of google playstore itself

[concept2]

Damn, all of them are indeed scam. It is a good action from google and it will protect users from falling into these kind of traps. Those businesses need to be verified carefully because 99% are pure scam so that I suggest you should not involve in. Why dont you stake your coins in some reliable defi project. They are much more profitable and safer.

[Oilacris]

Damn, all of them are indeed scam. It is a good action from google and it will protect users from falling into these kind of traps. Those businesses need to be verified carefully because 99% are pure scam so that I suggest you should not involve in. Why dont you stake your coins in some reliable defi project. They are much more profitable and safer.

Cloud mining applications are indeed scam and its just right that Google would really ban or remove those apps for the protection of users.Those are just pretending that users who download are indeed doing some mining but its not because in the end of the day it would really be just requiring for you to make out some deposit before you could withdraw.

As long they wont really be deleting those useful and legit apps then it should be fine but deleting these is just really right and i dont really have objections with this or the entire community
surely does.

[heatstreak_2012]

It was about time google took action about these so called fake apps which in turn scams investors

[Ruvi2000sew]

Google needs to step up their game in preventing the flood of fake apps into the Google Play Store; it is dangerous for users when they unknowingly install a fake app on their device thinking it is from Google Play; the action is long overdue, especially in the crypto space where funds are involved; it is easy to have so many fake apps in disguise as the original only to defraud people of their money; the action is long overdue; especially in the crypto space where funds are involved, it is easy to have so many fake

[DoublerHunter]

There are thousands of such online apps in the world of cryptocurrency that are constantly cheating. All the above mentioned applications are the voice of the people for extra profit Coming with cheating. However, the Google authorities have deleted the above apps from their playlist list. Beware of those apps.

^ We can also help Google too if we found apps that scam or something related to the fake app, we must report by them so that they will take action on it.
But obviously, these are all mentioned the OP is very suspicious, mining crypto wallet app that you don't have your own control over is a common scam wallet that we must be avoided. There are too many app wallets like this that are also used by the airdrop, sometimes they registered this on google but I don't how is the process of filtering apps on Google service that even scam apps or fake apps were successfully listed on google play store.

[tabas]

It was about time google took action about these so called fake apps which in turn scams investors

Too many victims even before they took action but this is better than no action at all. They only need to continue this as part of the crusade to eliminate scam apps on their platform.

There are thousands of such online apps in the world of cryptocurrency that are constantly cheating. All the above mentioned applications are the voice of the people for extra profit Coming with cheating. However, the Google authorities have deleted the above apps from their playlist list. Beware of those apps.

They can't remove all of them at once but let's hope that they're into a clean up that many of them will be gone soon.

[lenovop-70]

That is what Google should do, protecting us from scammer who tried to stole our money. I think they should have special team that legally takes care of crypto applications available on playstore, so at least newbie can learn to earn in Google supervision. But even so, in general crypto will still be very dangerous for users who are not careful and don't want to read, so my advice is to ask an expert assistant if you want to do cloud mining and some action like that, Don't be persuaded by the profits offered, but think about losing your money if you transfer it to someone you can not trace their whereabouts.

Thanks to OP that willing to write it and inform us!

[TalkStar]

This is not the first time I have heard that Google banned some mining apps on playstore, they should not think twice before they ban those apps because how can bitcoin be mined on phone, it is complete no possible. While most of them are cloud mining apps which is a way to scam people.

But I am still wondering why CryptoTab has not be banned when it is among them
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pro.cryptotab.android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lite.cryptotab.android

All cloud mining apps are fake, they should all be banned.

If you think that they are doing same like all recently banned apps then submit a report against this app and mentioned the exact reason during your submission. I am gonna take a look from my end soon and if I found similarities like all 8 banned apps then definitely they will get a report from my side.

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