.. / suspicious apps
[un] known contribution

Fraud or fake app is an app that’s created to mirror a legitimate app available in the App Store or Play Market. The scammers’ goal is to create an app that people will mistake for the actual popular app and download to their phones. Once the app is downloaded to the user’s phone, there are a few things that can happen.

Lottery sweepstakes and comptetion scams

These scams try to trick you into giving money upfront or your personal details in order to receive the prize.

Banking credit and online account

Scammers send emails, text messages or make a call that appear to be from your bank, a financial institution or an online payment service

Browser-in-the-Browser

An attack is a novel phishing technique that replicates pop-up windows used for SSO in an effort to steal login credentials. It works like this[:] The cybercriminals register a website using the classic phishing technique of making a clone of a legitimate website

Social Engineering

Term used for a broad range of malicious activities accomplished through human interactions


References on how to protect yourself from scamming: