Imagine only needing to scam 200 people to make $80,000 a month – Apple is letting someone do just that on the App Store. One totally-legit-sounding app dubbed “Clean & Security VPN” has managed to generate $400/month per subscriber, despite it being an obvious scam that asks users to pay $99.99 for a 7-day subscription for a supposed antivirus. Part of the issue seems to lie with Apple’s new search ads product: there seems to be no filtering or approval process, so even fake apps are getting great visibility. But there’s still the question of how they even pass the review process.



…apps from well-known companies like Dropbox, Evernote, and Microsoft. That was to be expected. But what’s this? The #10 Top Grossing Productivity app (as of June 7th, 2017) was an app called “Mobile protection: Clean & Security VPN.” Given the terrible title of this app ( inconsistent capitalization, misplaced colon, and grammatically nonsensical “Clean & Security VPN”? ) , I was sure this was a bug in the rankings algorithm. So I check Sensor Tower for an estimate of the app’s revenue, which showed…$80,000 per month? That couldn’t possibly be right. Now I was really curious.

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