(Credit: Symantec)
Hundreds of Japanese porn apps in the Google Play marketplace are tricking porn seekers into shelling out $1,000 for a fake service, security firm Symantec has found.
The company published a blog post today about the more than 200 fraudulent Android apps published by over 50 developers. Symantec has been tracking these apps since late January.
"From then on, the apps were published by different developers each time and the number of apps steadily grew though many were removed from Google Play at one point for unconfirmed reasons," according to the blog. "We are now seeing multiple developers fiercely publishing apps in bulk on a daily basis."
We've contacted Google for more information and will update if we hear back.
These developers are using a one-click fraud scam, according to Symantec. A typical one-click scam on a desktop is when a user clicks on a link and inadvertently downloads malware onto a computer, forcing the user to sign up for a paid service to stop popups. In the smartphone cases Symantec is following, the apps send users to porn sites that require a "service" fee. These fake apps don't actually do anything other than gain access to your phone and direct you to the ... [Read more]
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