Apple pulls two apps for scamming iPhone users with Touch ID
Despite its strict security policy in the App Store, this time Apple has not gotten rid of malicious applications. Specifically, the company has had to withdraw from the store two apps that were defrauding iPhone users with Touch ID. "Fitness Balance" and "Calories Tracker" promised to control weight, calculating calories or body mass index for free,but what they actually ended up doing is charge a fairly high fee without clearly notifying you in advance.
When users placed their finger on the fingerprint reader of their iPhone, the two applications charged them an amount of 140 euros without the owners of the device being aware of it.Basically, a pop-up window appeared to indicate that they were going to be charged. The truth is that it took barely two seconds to disappear, which made it impossible to read the informative message. In addition, having a credit or debit card linked to the Apple account, the money was withdrawn immediately.
A Reditt user explained in the forum that once one of these two apps was downloaded, they were required to keep their finger on the fingerprint. After that was when the popup to pay for the app would appear. But, having already placed my finger on Touch ID and this window disappearing in just two seconds, the payment continued without the owner of the phone noticing.
Apple has already taken action and removed the two malicious apps from the App Store this weekend. The company will return all the stolen money to those affected within a maximum period of one month. The truth is that, despite being a scam, the applications had very positive evaluations, although it is possible that they were written by people related to it. So that you become An idea, Fitness Balance had an average score of 4.3 stars out of a total of five, which makes it even more difficult to distinguish malicious apps from others that are not. From tuexpertoapps we advise you not to download applications from unknown developers to avoid problems.
