Fraudulent Apps Found In Apple's Store

snydeq writes Angry support queries citing problems with mystery iOS apps has led InfoWorld's Simon Phipps to discover the existence of several scamware apps in Apple's App Store. "If you're a scammer looking to make a fast buck, it appears that [Apple's App Store] process can be defeated," Phipps reports. "The questions originated from a support link for a $2.99 app in Apple's iTunes Store," which pointed angry customers to the Apache OpenOffice community, which doesn't even have an iOS app. The app in question, Quickoffice Pro, "simply displays a gray screen with the word Tap. When you tap the screen, the app exits." Further investigation has uncovered two other scam apps thus far.

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Quickoffice Pro Is not a "scam app"

[Saysys]

Quickoffice Pro is a useful program i've been using since I purchased an iPhone 3G. It recently had a bad update that broke it, a mistake on the publisher's part no doubt, but not a scam. Honestly this article reads way to joyously consists of way too little research on the subject.

It's like some people want IOS to suck in the same ways Android does; sorry folks! It sucks in it's own ways.

Re:Quickoffice Pro Is not a "scam app"

[Anonymous Coward]

If you had even went as far as reading the summary, you would have seen that these apps are not the actual quickoffice owned by google (and since discontinued), but scam apps designed to get people to pay for them but do not deliver the advertised functionality. They are blatant ripoffs, down to stealing google's logo and including bogus support links to avoid attention.