Fake call logs, real payments: How CallPhantom tricks Android users
There’s an app for everything nowadays… right? Well, looking up call records for a phone number of choice is not one of those things, as potentially millions of Android users found out after paying for app subscriptions promising just that.
The offending apps, which we named CallPhantom based on their false claims, purport to provide access to call histories, SMS records, and even WhatsApp call logs for any phone number. To unlock this supposed feature, users are asked to pay – but all they get in return is randomly generated data.
Our investigation identified 28 such fraudulent apps available on the Google Play store, cumulatively downloaded more than 7.3 million times. As an App Defense Alliance partner, we reported our findings to Google, which removed all of the apps identified in this report from Google Play.
Key points of this blogpost:A new Android scam, CallPhantom, falsely claims to provide...
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