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Quote from: JohnBitCo on July 03, 2020, 11:23:51 PM

It is very easy to list any app in google play store and there is not much check and balance by the google. That's why we see a lot of apps being listed in play store which are fake ones and some phishing ones to which are made to collect the data from the cell phone. I do not download much apps from playstore and use only the ones which i require mostly for my routine.

Google has a long way to go regarding its nonchalant altitude allowing apps performing below what they put in their reviews. Tones of apps with a lot of mediocrity, it is appalling and saddening seeing phishing apps on Google even in 2020. I think iOS is way more secured than Google Play store.

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Quote from: Mpamaegbu on July 04, 2020, 03:06:17 PM

I must be in real big trouble then because I always look at reviews and star ratings before downloading any app from the playstore.

You should never rely on reviews or ratings left by random people. Anyone can create a new account and leave a fake positive review and 5 stars rating. It can be manipulated easily.
Always get the app link from the official website.

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This is getting dicey and I think the honourable thing will be for Google to step up its game on Android playstore. Failure to do that will sooner than later cause them loss of credibility and fan base.

I doubt this will happen any time soon as there are no serious competitors for them.

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Quote from: NavI_027 on July 02, 2020, 11:37:40 PM

Indeed, look! I can't even believe that the fake app got a perfect 5 star from 146 feedbacks Roll Eyes

. And I think there are only two possible reasons for that: either the app perfectly copied the original or those 146 people are just paid to tell good reviews. Nonetheless, Play Store must act because what seems right now is that even them are not immune from malicious attacks. Such loopholes make me appreciate iOS more.

I must be in real big trouble then because I always look at reviews and star ratings before downloading any app from the playstore. So, this is an easy way to deceive users then? Before stumbling on this thread today, I tried to download Electrum wallet earlier but the rating was below my gauge of 4+ (in fact, it was around 3+), I quickly abandoned it. I know there are fake sites parading Electrum wallets and I didn't want to leave anything to chance.

This is getting dicey and I think the honourable thing will be for Google to step up its game on Android playstore. Failure to do that will sooner than later cause them loss of credibility and fan base.

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It seems like it easy to be qualified in Google or maybe they paid google to put their applications in the google extensions.

I've seen also mew in google play store but I've only used the website since it has a lot of security features making sure that the account is secured.

The best thing to do is stay away from this application since there are so many fake applications or wallets online even on google it easy to verified legitimate websites and application if your careful and knowledgeable.

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It's not like that we don't have a choice. We just need to be helpful and share these kind of fake or whatever shit it is to help other people be aware of such fake ones. We don't have a choice that we can make google play not to accept such fake apps. All we can do for now is to share and report these fake shits.

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This Fake MEW wallet already has a lot of fake five star reviews in it, you will literally only see 1 liner reviews explaining how "excellent" the app is which isn't really typical for any reviewer to say. Usually when you will look at fake wallet apps you will see reviews of how they got scammed by this app well this app is showing differently since it is padded reviews and maybe they are just waiting the right moment to strike when a lot of people have downloaded the app, that's why reporting this app before a scam happens is something we need to do.

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Quote from: Krislaw on July 03, 2020, 05:03:42 PM

Google should be blamed here for accepting such clone into it's app store. It's a finance app which would have cost some users some loses. I now see reason why iOS stores are very strict when accepting apps into in store, especially finance apps. No one would have spot the difference here except for the developer's name, download count and rating.

Google has turned into a place where noobs creates apps and integrate on it, enough is enough for google to promoting fake and fraudulent apps.
I would advice anyone that would like to access the legit MEW app to click through the website www.myetherwallet.com and follow procedure to download app.
I have been scammed before using this method, I inserted my private key in www.myétherwallet.com the site looks exactly as the former, the letter é makes the different. So be careful with such website too.

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Quote from: Krislaw on July 03, 2020, 05:03:42 PM

Google should be blamed here for accepting such clone into it's app store. It's a finance app which would have cost some users some loses. I now see reason why iOS stores are very strict when accepting apps into in store, especially finance apps. No one would have spot the difference here except for the developer's name, download count and rating.

It is very easy to list any app in google play store and there is not much check and balance by the google. That's why we see a lot of apps being listed in play store which are fake ones and some phishing ones to which are made to collect the data from the cell phone. I do not download much apps from playstore and use only the ones which i require mostly for my routine.

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Quote from: Krislaw on July 03, 2020, 05:03:42 PM

Google should be blamed here for accepting such clone into it's app store. It's a finance app which would have cost some users some loses. I now see reason why iOS stores are very strict when accepting apps into in store, especially finance apps. No one would have spot the difference here except for the developer's name, download count and rating.

And that is unfortunately not always the case. The same people publishing those fake apps on the Play Store are also bomb reviewing the legit apps with 1 star reviews so they go down in the search list and also appear less legit. For example, the Ledger Live app has 1.7 stars ratings when just a few says ago, it had around 4 stars. Number of downloads are also extremely easy to bypass/spoof. You still need and iOS and Apple account to do all of that, while on Android, you just need to download an emulator or pay extremely cheap rates for farms to do that for you.

The only viable way of always going to the real app is by checking the url/full name of the app (e.g com.ledger.ledgerlive) which is unique per app and finding it through the company’s/app’s website rather than searching for it on the Play Store.

I have already talked about this. But Google has almost zero verification when letting new apps come to their store, while Apple is more of an perfectionist, doing deep analysis of what the app does and how it makes. I have published apps on both stores so I know how all of that works.

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Google should be blamed here for accepting such clone into it's app store. It's a finance app which would have cost some users some loses. I now see reason why iOS stores are very strict when accepting apps into in store, especially finance apps. No one would have spot the difference here except for the developer's name, download count and rating.

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Quote from: durilup on July 03, 2020, 04:17:12 AM

I would advise you to download the official ethereum wallet from their website . I still remember few years ago when someone hacked mew official website and stole more than 200 ethereum

Very right, even if you have to download on the cellphone you should first go to official website and from there Click on google playstore link from that website, this way you will directly land on the correct application. If you use iPhone you will not face such issues as apple store security is strict and it is not possible to list fraudulent apps in apple store.

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on July 03, 2020, 05:34:02 AM

There is no doubt that the iPhone is far better security-wise than an android phone and the same is applicable to the store. I have been using both and found the iPhone far better in security.

In terms of a technical perspective, I'm not sure if we can even compare the security as iOS is closed source. iOS is mostly just deemed secure not because it's technologically more secure, but more because it's very strict; hence why Apple is frequently called "walled garden". Probably like saying that person A is safer than person B because person A likes going out daily(hence more at risk of murder/accidents/etc) whereas person B likes staying at home.

Quote from: pakhitheboss on July 03, 2020, 05:34:02 AM

Almost all apps are payable and that is one of the reasons why people do not fiddle with apps store. Whereas on Google store every app is free and people would download anything just to check how it works.

While there are more paid apps on the Apple App Store, not at all. There are also a good number of paid apps on the Android Play Store. You can only call every app free if you frequently download cracked APKs lol.

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The Google Play store contains a very large number of fake and fraudulent applications that are intended for theft and most fraudulent applications are the portfolio applications, so when we want to download a special application for a specific wallet, it is better that we download it from the official website because it is more secure

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on July 03, 2020, 05:34:02 AM

Quote from: mk4 on July 02, 2020, 09:17:48 PM

Google needs to step up their shit. I used to frequently crap at Apple for their App Store being super restrictive and for their OS being a "walled garden", but I've recently been advocating for the usage of iPhones for non-tech literate friends and family due to crap like this.

There is no doubt that the iPhone is far better security-wise than an android phone and the same is applicable to the store. I have been using both and found the iPhone far better in security. Almost all apps are payable and that is one of the reasons why people do not fiddle with apps store. Whereas on Google store every app is free and people would download anything just to check how it works.

Well, this is completely up for debate, but I would agree that security wise, Iphone or IOS is far more better specially if we are going to compare it regarding this security. But there are still majority who wanted to used Google so it's really up to them. Specially if they are a crypto enthusiast and suddenly feel a victim for this kind of attacks from cyber criminals. Sometimes you really need to experience this kind of things (although its not good), before realizing which one is better.

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It would be good to search forum before posting to avoid duplicate topics

I have posted the same thing before in scam accusation board:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/scam-fake-mew-myetherwallet-malicious-app-5259518

Everyone please report them on google store.

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I think you found this wallet into Google's website only and not in the Google play store application. Also, it is better to make sure you must need to download into secured sources but still, even this is a release from the google it is safe because this is unlike the apple store it is more secured each code and all in all platform because they want to make sure the security of their users.

Still it is a good move OP to be more aware most of the newbies that would like to use the MEW.

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Quote from: mk4 on July 02, 2020, 09:17:48 PM

Google needs to step up their shit. I used to frequently crap at Apple for their App Store being super restrictive and for their OS being a "walled garden", but I've recently been advocating for the usage of iPhones for non-tech literate friends and family due to crap like this.

There is no doubt that the iPhone is far better security-wise than an android phone and the same is applicable to the store. I have been using both and found the iPhone far better in security. Almost all apps are payable and that is one of the reasons why people do not fiddle with apps store. Whereas on Google store every app is free and people would download anything just to check how it works.

We all know that iPhone js one of the most secured Operating system and platform before they release the product into the market but still we dont have enough funds to bought this and most of the user now are on Android and downloading file in google play, and apk pure if we cannot find out the application we want.

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Quote from: mk4 on July 02, 2020, 09:17:48 PM

Google needs to step up their shit. I used to frequently crap at Apple for their App Store being super restrictive and for their OS being a "walled garden", but I've recently been advocating for the usage of iPhones for non-tech literate friends and family due to crap like this.

There is no doubt that the iPhone is far better security-wise than an android phone and the same is applicable to the store. I have been using both and found the iPhone far better in security. Almost all apps are payable and that is one of the reasons why people do not fiddle with apps store. Whereas on Google store every app is free and people would download anything just to check how it works.

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Quote from: mk4 on July 02, 2020, 09:33:51 PM

Quote from: crwth on July 02, 2020, 09:21:40 PM

Unless the person Jailbreaks their Apple Devices and installs from unverified sources of apps, which would be dangerous, lol.

True. But in the end it's mostly the tech-savvy people who jailbreaks their iPhones anyway, so we probably can assume that they(at least most) know what they're doing in the first place. On the other hand I know a lot of people that own Android phones that installs random .APKs of cracked apps. Yikes.

I remember some buy and sell stores that also repair phones actually could jailbreak for you for a labor fee. I think not everyone is tech-savvy who had their phones jailbroken. I think they just want to get away with paid apps for free, which is actually bad and could be the gateway to your personal information on the phone. Installing random or "seem to be safe" APK's are could be the entry point to hacking your phone. Double yikes. Shocked

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I would advise you to download the official ethereum wallet from their website . I still remember few years ago when someone hacked mew official website and stole more than 200 ethereum

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Quote from: NavI_027 on July 02, 2020, 11:37:40 PM

Indeed, look! I can't even believe that the fake app got a perfect 5 star from 146 feedbacks Roll Eyes

. And I think there are only two possible reasons for that: either the app perfectly copied the original or those 146 people are just paid to tell good reviews. Nonetheless, Play Store must act because what seems right now is that even them are not immune from malicious attacks. Such loopholes make me appreciate iOS more.

Almost guaranteed that it's the latter. I mean, it would be silly to assume that people who actually got their funds stolen to be leaving positive feedback lol. Unfortunately it's really easy to make Google accounts hence it's easy to fake reviews, in contrast to Apple whereas as far as I know you'd actually need to leave the review using an Apple device.

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