List of fake wallets on Google Play, 3 active at the moment! - page 2.

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Quote from: Rikafip on March 05, 2021, 03:42:13 AM

Fake Exodus wallet that was reported a week ago has been removed , but two fake Exodus wallets showed on on Google Play. It is basically a whack-a-mole game with these ake apps, but I think that it is worth reporting them nevertheless. Less time they spend on Google Play, less chance for someone to fall for this scam attempt so please report those two new wallets, it will only take a few seconds of your time.

Fake Exodus wallet 1

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stexosll.walle

https://archive.fo/SwC3w

Fake Exodus wallet 2

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dusttp.exwalle

https://archive.vn/hG8uT

Wow if there are no active people reporting these fake apps, newbies will fall on this and they will blame the Cryptocurrency for lack of security measures, the same scammers are doing it over and over again because they know that Google play is where newbies are looking to store their coins, Google should implement strict measures when it comes to accepting Cryptocurrency wallet.

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Fake Exodus wallet that was reported a week ago has been removed , but two fake Exodus wallets showed on on Google Play. It is basically a whack-a-mole game with these ake apps, but I think that it is worth reporting them nevertheless. Less time they spend on Google Play, less chance for someone to fall for this scam attempt so please report those two new wallets, it will only take a few seconds of your time.

Fake Exodus wallet 1

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stexosll.walle

https://archive.fo/SwC3w

Fake Exodus wallet 2

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dusttp.exwalle

https://archive.vn/hG8uT

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One more fake wallet appeared on Google Play, this time it's a fake version of a very popular Exodus wallet. App has been uploaded two weeks ago and it already has more than 1,000 downloads. Hopefully no one shared their private key because if they did, they certainly lost everything they had

Fake app link

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.xoduscrypt.com

https://archive.fo/4w7T6

Few users posted warning, but please report app too. It will only take a few seconds and might save someone.

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Quote from: TalkStar on February 22, 2021, 01:54:13 PM

After not getting enough results from phishing websites these scammers are now using google play store to attract newbies. Honestly its hard to stop them where we can only help new crypto users by detecting this type of fake wallet app. Its not like that only they are making fake reviews to make everyone believe that its a real app and delivering honest services but i have also seen some ecommerce app who are using fake reviews to increase their downloads.

When you see how cheap is to publish an app on Google Play (approximately 25 USD) and how relaxed Google is when it comes to checking the submitted apps I am surprised that there are no even more of those fake app wallets than there are now. Since I started tracking them few months ago, this is the best situation so far with only one active wallet (that I was able to identify, there might be more) while there were period when there were eight or nine of them at the same time.

But nothing we can do about it other than reporting it to Google and hoping that they will be removed in the reasonable time frame.

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Quote from: Rikafip on February 22, 2021, 12:16:50 PM

The last three wallets that were still available on Google play have been removed (Mycelium, Jaxx Liberty and Coinbase) and marked appropriately, but we didn;t have to wait long for another fake wallet to appear, this time Atomic.

Wallet has been created two weeks ago and luckily doesn't have too many downloads and it seems like they didn't hire someone to write fake reviews. Please take a minute of your time to report the app, as it may make Google to remove app faster and save somoene from loosing his hard earned money.

Link to the fake wallet

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wallet.btceth.atomic

https://archive.fo/AMMXB

After not getting enough results from phishing websites these scammers are now using google play store to attract newbies. Honestly its hard to stop them where we can only help new crypto users by detecting this type of fake wallet app. Its not like that only they are making fake reviews to make everyone believe that its a real app and delivering honest services but i have also seen some ecommerce app who are using fake reviews to increase their downloads.

Thanks for creating a separate topic and giving continuous update about app removal. I am gonna submit a report from my end and hopefully playstore authority will take appropriate action.

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The last three wallets that were still available on Google play have been removed (Mycelium, Jaxx Liberty and Coinbase) and marked appropriately, but we didn;t have to wait long for another fake wallet to appear, this time Atomic.

Wallet has been created two weeks ago and luckily doesn't have too many downloads and it seems like they didn't hire someone to write fake reviews. Please take a minute of your time to report the app, as it may make Google to remove app faster and save somoene from loosing his hard earned money.

Link to the fake wallet

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wallet.btceth.atomic

https://archive.fo/AMMXB

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Four fake wallets have been removed from Google Play and another fake Jaxx wallet showed up so there are currently at least 3 fake wallets active. Regarding this newly discovered Jaxx, if we are to believe app reviews some people unfortunately fell for this scam and lost the money.

Please take a minute of your time to report those three apps that are still available as they may get removed faster and save someone from loosing hard earned money.

Fake Jaxx wallet

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jaxxliberty.tech

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Quote from: gadado on January 31, 2021, 04:31:46 PM

I do wonder how they manage to get such wallets officially in the playstore. Doesn't that require a very official procedure?

While Google probably checks some of the submitted apps manually, huge majority of verifications are done automatically and that system obviously can't detect fake apps efficiently. Add on that it costs only $25 to submit an app on Play Store so no wonder that is swarmed with fake versions of popular crypto wallets. They covered their ass with TOS in which is stated that they are not responsible for any damage caused by apps not developed by them so why spend more money to make platform safer? :p

On the other hand, Apple is doing much better job when it comes to detection of fake apps; verification is longer therefore more thorough and app submission cost is higher (you have to pay $99 to be part of Apple Developer Program in order to be able submitting apps) so its not a popular choice for scammers.

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on January 31, 2021, 05:07:52 PM

If you're new and don't know what you're looking for (or looking at), it's nearly impossible to tell if something is genuine in the Google Play store unless someone's already dropped a warning feedback or something.

Yep, they are perfectly aware of the constant influx of complete newbs and that's their target audience. Huge majority of those people are used to getting all their apps through Play Store so they won't think twice whether crypto wallet is legit or not. Worst of all, looks like Google doesn't care much about the issue at all as problem is not new and it keeps escalating.

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Nicely done on this list, OP. I have no doubt there are complete newbies to bitcoin who'll get scammed by these fake wallets--and I'm assuming that's why they were created in the first place. If you're new and don't know what you're looking for (or looking at), it's nearly impossible to tell if something is genuine in the Google Play store unless someone's already dropped a warning feedback or something.

As bitcoin keeps going up, we're going to start seeing more of these creative scamming methods. This is the aspect of cryptocurrency that I detest: the space is full of dishonest people and outright scammers.

Quote from: gadado on January 31, 2021, 04:31:46 PM

I do wonder how they manage to get such wallets officially in the playstore. Doesn't that require a very official procedure?

Apparently not if they're getting them listed. And yeah, you'd think Google would do some due diligence on the apps they distribute, but obviously it's not much if any at all.

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I do wonder how they manage to get such wallets officially in the playstore. Doesn't that require a very official procedure?

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Quote from: Baofeng on January 29, 2021, 05:32:26 AM

This one looks suspicious to me, recently uploaded last January 18.

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dash.electrum.electrum_dash

Someone in the DASH announcement thread checked it with the team and it seems like DashElectrum wallet is legit after all.

Quote from: aleix on January 29, 2021, 05:10:31 AM

I checked with the DASH team. The app is good. No worries.

The app is from an external developer, funded by the DASH decentralized budget:

https://www.dashcentral.org/p/DashElectrumJan2021

They will improve in the image of the app announcement to avoid further confusion.

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Quote from: Rikafip on January 29, 2021, 04:20:06 AM

Quote from: Harlot on January 28, 2021, 06:07:20 PM

Literally anyone can upload an app in Google playstore and they won't have any kind of good screening process in it so there is a big chance that they will just re-upload their phishing apps.

It's true that Google sucks in that regard and that there is a lot of room for improvement but I don't think that they don't check apps at all. Problem is that they don't manually check each and every app made by a new developer. Or at least to manually check an app if there is already similarly named on available on Google Play.

I do like to think that they still block certain amount of phishing attempts, no matter how sucky and fallible their screening process is.

There's many fakes recently so I think google should implement a strict listing on their platform since those phising site is so alerting and if they control the apps to be listed for sure phising apps will decrease and provably have possibilities gone on their platform. As of now since they are allowing it since maybe they don't really look on what type of apps has been listed maybe a simple report might give a big help since for sure if those one will get reported the dev will find ways to eliminate those dangerous apps.

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This one looks suspicious to me, recently uploaded last January 18.

Code:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dash.electrum.electrum_dash

So I did try to confirm in their official ANN thread if it is fake or not,

And I got two response saying that it could be fake.

Response 1:here
Response 2:here

So I reported it as well.

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Quote from: Harlot on January 28, 2021, 06:07:20 PM

Literally anyone can upload an app in Google playstore and they won't have any kind of good screening process in it so there is a big chance that they will just re-upload their phishing apps.

It's true that Google sucks in that regard and that there is a lot of room for improvement but I don't think that they don't check apps at all. Problem is that they don't manually check each and every app made by a new developer. Or at least to manually check an app if there is already similarly named on available on Google Play.

I do like to think that they still block certain amount of phishing attempts, no matter how sucky and fallible their screening process is.

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Quote from: mike2077 on January 19, 2021, 11:13:48 AM

How it is even possible that they allowed to be in a store?

Google is notorious for not screening any kind of applications and content on their products from their own app store, Youtube, and their search engine you will see a bunch of malware, phishing sites, and other scams which will make you definitely see at least one especially with their SEO. What's the sad thing about this is they rely on their own customer feedback before they will bring down an app which is one of the worst prevention techniques done by any content providers out there. Literally anyone can upload an app in Google playstore and they won't have any kind of good screening process in it so there is a big chance that they will just re-upload their phishing apps.

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Quote from: Serious475 on January 28, 2021, 11:43:24 AM

Hello Rikafip I want to add on the list some of the fake wallets I found.

Fake electrum

This fake Electrum wallet seems to be already removed so there is no point adding it now.

Quote from: Serious475 on January 28, 2021, 11:43:24 AM

[Fake wallet] Coinbase wallet application

One of the reported fake Coinbase wallets is already removed so won't be added but the other one is still available so that on goes on the list!

Google removed four fake wallets in the last day or two, so with this newly identified fake Coinbase wallet there are overall 6 active at the moment.

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Hello Rikafip I want to add on the list some of the fake wallets I found.

Fake electrum

[Fake wallet] Coinbase wallet application

Hopefully, you will notice this.

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These things can have a big impact on novices

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As I check almost every day and searching crypto wallets, it was a surprise a lot of options will appear. Even BTC and ETH have no escape from this.
For the growing numbers of fake wallet apps, it should be the time for google play store to regulate it and to know which one is fake or legit. And they should have to removed ASAP or not, even to tag as fake/trusted.
I'm in consideration with the comments but as we know that some feedbacks been paid and manipulated, that seems not safe by then.

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Without some kind of management, the problem of fake wallets will be more serious

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