Not all that glitters on app stores is gold. Alongside countless real apps, there are also hundreds of imitations that often look genuine at first sight.
The sellers of these apps pretend to be selling a licensed product, but they are in fact almost empty software shells. Besides getting the money paid by users for these useless products, the fraudsters behind these fake and pseudo apps are sometimes looking to steal user data.
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