Articles Tagged ‘scam’
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Chinese Scammers Adopt New Tricks, Build iPhones Using Fake Parts
BY Joe White on Mon April 15th, 2013
There's a new iPhone scam in operation in China.
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Don't Buy Any Property In This Fake Monopoly Game
BY Andy Faust III on Sat July 21st, 2012
Don't let this crudely copied Monopoly fake put you in the poor house.
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New 'Terraria' Scam Tricking App Store Customers
BY Andy Faust III on Sat July 21st, 2012
Terraria is not yet available for iOS, so don't get tricked by this scam!
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Misleading 'Craft - Build Terrain' Scam Back In The App Store
BY Andy Faust III on Sat July 21st, 2012
Somehow, this previously-banned MineCraft ripoff is available again.
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'Writing' App Shamelessly Copies iA Writer's Iconic Looks
BY Andy Faust III on Tue May 22nd, 2012
Here's yet more proof that Apple's review team is hopelessly AFK.
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Paid ESPN Radio App Locks Out Users On August 1
BY Andy Faust III on Wed May 16th, 2012
In going freemium, ESPN Radio has willfully alienated its entire paying customer base.
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Misleading App Tops Charts, Highlights Apple's Inattention To Details
BY Andy Faust III on Wed April 18th, 2012
Lock My Screen, while not necessarily a scam, underscores Apple's recent App Store failings.
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Scam Pokemon Apps Pulled From App Store
BY Brent Dirks on Tue February 21st, 2012
As quickly as they climbed the paid charts this weekend, a pair of fake Pokemon apps have been thankfully pulled from the App Store.
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Prepare For Trouble And Make It Double: These Pokemon Apps Are A Scam
BY Jamie Young on Sun February 19th, 2012
Don't be fooled by the fake Pokemon apps in the App Store — they're scams!
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[UPDATED] Fake "Clear" App Spotted In The App Store, Now Removed
BY Christine Chan on Sun February 12th, 2012
Don't be fooled by fake apps. Clear from RealMac Software and Impending will not be out until Wednesday, February 15.
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Alas eBook's Flash Video Expose Is One Of The Latest Frauds To Make It By The App Store Review Team
BY Casey Tschida on Mon July 18th, 2011
Looking for that perfect web browser with Adobe Flash support? Don't look to Alas eBook for the solution.
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Supposed iPhone 5 Online Casting Call A Front For Some Unknown Scam
BY Andy Faust III on Thu May 26th, 2011
An online posting for iPhone 5 commercial participants is laughable, fake, and pulled.
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Huh, Apple Opens The App Store To Lottery Apps
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu February 18th, 2010
For those of you with compulsive gambling tendencies, owning an iPhone might soon become somewhat of a problem. In what looks like a very strange move, Apple is now allowing lottery-style applications in the App
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Danger: Some In-App Admob Ads Could Contain A Dialer
BY Alexander Vaughn on Fri January 22nd, 2010
Remember "dialers" from the dial-up Internet days? Well, apparently they're back, this time on your iPhone. According to a bunch of french iPhone users, some AdMob in-app ad banners, when clicked, are allegedly triggering "background
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Phishing Apps Make Their Way To The Android Market, Oops
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue January 12th, 2010
Despite of the critics, Apple's approval process has some serious benefits, a big one being safety. First Tech Credit union is reporting that a couple phishing apps have made it to the Android Market this
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Almost 1% Of The App Store Pulled Over A Rating Scam
BY Alexander Vaughn on Mon December 07th, 2009
Glyn Evans over at iphoneography brought a very interesting story to the public's attention this weekend. A friend of his, SCW, was looking into some photography apps by the developer Molinker (the apps actually look
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Fake iPhone App Stirs Up Some Controversy
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue October 27th, 2009
Ok, this isn't real, it's just a shady ad for an iPhone app that doesn't really exist. LawFirms.com is a website that helps you find an immigration lawyer and they thought of tapping into the
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Nude It Or The Limits Of Augmented Reality
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue October 20th, 2009
How crazy/sexy/cool, yet totally unethical, would it be if you could see through peoples clothes by using the 3GS camera API and its embedded camera? Well allegedly you can... according to a YouTube video at
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UPDATE: Download Gokivo's Turn By Turn App For Only 99 Cents, Spend An Extra $10 To Use It
BY Ian on Wed June 17th, 2009
We were wondering who would get the honor of first rip-off using Apple's new In App Purchases. Wonder no longer, that honor goes Gokivo + Yahoo! Local Search.
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