“Fraudsters expect the user to forget about the installed application and its short trial, or fail to notice the real subscription cost,” Avast researchers explained, in a posting on Tuesday. Users can easily find themselves paying hundreds of dollars for the app over time, researchers noted. The charges show up on victims’ phone bills, where they may or may not be noticed. These “fleeceware” offerings start with a “free trial” period but then automatically and quietly start charging up to $30 per week after that. Fans of the popular Minecraft video game are in the crosshairs of cybercriminals, who have loaded up Google Play with scam apps bent on fleecing players out of cash.Īccording to researchers, the mobile apps for Android fool users into spending hundreds of dollars per month, by offering skins, wallpapers and game mods for Minecraft and other games at super-premium prices.
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