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App Store scams are getting worse and Apple isn’t doing enough

Apple is shooting itself in the foot with how often it lets flagrant scam apps into the App Store. It’s doing so at precisely the time is needs to do better for iPhone user safety.

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The App Store is not as safe as Apple says, or as Apple could make it —- image credit: Apple

In just the last week, Freecash was removed for how it sold user data. Apple only killed it after it was asked about the issue.

At about the same time, a fake cryptocurrency app took users for around $9.5 million before it was taken down. Or to look at it another way, Apple earned between $1.425 million and $2.85 million from that scam, depending on whether the developer is charged 15% or 30%.

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