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    Default 1000 fraudulent apps submitted to the Google Play Store in August alone

    A recently published report by software security company Symantec shows that August has seen a peak of fraudulent apps for Android being submitted to the Google Play Store.
    In fact, close to 1,000 scam apps have been published in August alone, which in total have been downloaded “at least” 8,500 times as per Google Play’s own statistic.
    http://blog.gsmarena.com/symantec-10...-august-alone/
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    Be careful how you post topics like this, lest you invoke the wrath of the Fandroids.
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    this is no worse than a single dev having 47k apps in blackberry world
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    I still dont know why people waste their time making apps like these.

    A sensible person read before downloading.
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    Quote Originally Posted by topanaris View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by pezz View Post
    I still dont know why people waste their time making apps like these.

    A sensible person read before downloading.
    Well it's not really time wasting if they are making them to scam people of certain information that they can use to make a gain, but I get what your saying.

    Majority of people that download these apps are rich kids with access to their parents credit cards who juss don't care what they do and just do it.
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