Avoid these Fakes and Scam Apps on Google Play Store / Chrome Web Store

Ink

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Sharing apps that are potentially a scam and fake by stealing legitimate apps content (ie. Screenshots, Description) etc. They include common traits such as;
  • Multiple In-Apps Ads
  • Excessive Permissions
  • False 5-star reviews with or without a comment
  • Device Administration
  • more

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=The+Review+Team
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Contains
  • Imitation of legitimate apps
  • Misleading purpose
  • Excessive Ads usage
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Have you found any?
 

tim one

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Battery Repair Life

This app gets 4/5 stars. Negative real reviews are present but a ton of fake 5 stars.
I can say with reasonable certainty that this app does not keep promises.
It is not possible to repair the lithium battery cells via software.

Just placebo effect.

This app uses social engineering techniques to get tons of installations and money by Ads and we consider the fact that it has full access to the internet, what would be the reason?

  • Installations : 500.000-1.000.000.
  • Permissions: full internet access and view network state.

Battery Repair Life - Android Apps on Google Play
 

jamescv7

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@tim one: Actually that product does not really repair any battery ;) , once the repair process is done and run another test; suddenly a random of errors will detect again and encourage to repair again.

Cell map contains inaccurate results.
 
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