Although these apps have been reported to Google, they are yet to be removed from the Play Store putting Minecraft users at risk of further scams.
It’s true, gamers for some reason that has been largely un-understood by us normal people spend hundreds of dollars on buying games and the in-built features that accompany them. However, that’s not an open license to scam them, is it?
In the latest, a report by Avast has revealed a range of apps that are fraudulently charging users on the Google Play Store posing as offering add-ons for the famous Minecraft game.
With the apps falling into the category of Fleeceware; where apps usually offer free trials and then eventually end up charging exorbitant subscription fees, the specific offerings of these scammers include wallpapers, skins, and other modifications that would seem attractive to users of the game.
However, once they install the app and seamlessly start a free trial, a subscription plan is automatically charged to the user, often without their knowledge for a hefty fee, the highest of which has been seen to be $120 a month in this case.
The scam rests on the proposition that maybe the user would forget that they had signed up for a trial in the first place. In response to this, Ondrej David, malware analysis team lead at Avast stated in their report that:
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