But this is simply a medicine after death scenario. It is also sure that the scam App will be deleted from the store with the profile of the developer. However, with the exposure of this app, everyone that has patronized it at one point or the other ought to request a refund from the right quarters. They might claim ignorance but that doesn’t really make them innocent. In fact chief amongst what Apple actual retail to its customers is the confidence that the products have gone through thorough screening and approval in the first place: the peace of mind that comes with knowing that it is not just a banana republic scenario where anything goes, this is owing to the belief that Apple has screened and approved the sale.įurthermore, Apple actually gets a 30% cut of the proceeds of the sale of this scam App, while also still getting a share for retailing it on the ad services that gave it exposure enough to rake in about one million dollars in one year. First of all, the review function of the App store is specifically designed to filter out unscrupulous elements from the store. It should be noted that Apple actually has two roles to play here.

It is even more unbelievable that customers make purchases of a hundred dollars weekly without Apple carefully checking the text that contains the subscription to ensure they understand what it is they intend approving. However, the big question in this story is how Apple actually approved this application in the first place. It basically scams them into paying for a subscription service people hardly take note of due to negligence. The app under the spotlight according to Sensor data tower rakes in over 80,000 Dollars monthly although it doesn’t really offer the gadget user any service of the commensurate vale.

This app is disguised as a free trial but in reality is not, even worse off it doesn’t do anything.Ī search on app store search ads will link you directly to it, the description of the app claims it to be an antivirus application, thus making it easy for unsuspecting customers to install this supposedly ‘free trial’ app which in reality charges about 100 dollars for a week’s subscription. An unbelievable story emerged over the weekend of an application that technically defrauds its users of about 400 Dollars monthly.

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