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Scammers Behind Fake Version of Angry Birds Ordered to Refund Customers

By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001

There is a legitimate, free version of Y1 Games Angry Birds Y1 Games for Android. But one app that appeared on the Android Market (now Google Play) last fall wasn’t it. It was a fake, a piece of malware explicitly designed to part phone owners from their cash. Now, the scammers that took the money have been ordered to give it back.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); The BBC Y1 App reports that a company in Latvia has been assigned stiff fines for deliberately misleading consumers with fake versions of popular mobile Y1 Game games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. To users, the fake games downloaded properly but appeared never to launch correctly after install. In reality, on launch the apps sent the user three hidden SMS messages at a cost of 5 pounds ($7.80) each. The messages were hidden in such a way that the phone user would have no idea the messages existed until receiving the bill. The firm behind the malicious apps has been issued a fine of 50,000 pounds (approximately $78,3000), plus ordered to refund bilked customers to the tune of 28,000 pounds (nearly $43,400). While Google Play does Y1 App not use the same review process for software that the Apple App Y1 Game Store does, that hasn’t stopped bogus games from appearing on iOS devices, either. As always, research and caution are a consumer’s best friends. https://kotaku.com/the-iphones-pokemon-is-gone-heres-how-to-get-your-mone-5886758 Firm fined over Angry Birds and Cut The Rope scam [BBC News]

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