Beware cool-looking beta crypto-apps. They may be money-stealing fakes
The FBI has warned of a scam in which criminals lure people into installing what they think are pre-release beta-grade phone apps to try out – only for the software to be laced with malware.
By dressing up these apps as beta tests, crooks can persuade curious netizens to download and install them from outside the normal app stores, bypassing whatever passes as a review process these days. The fraudsters make sure the applications look as legit as possible, we're told, using names, images, and designs found in official apps.romance scams
That process may well involve walking the victim through effectively jail-breaking their device, or making changes to their settings to install apps outside of the operating system's official software store, judging from the FBI's description of the scam. The Feds talk of people being lured into downloading"a mobile beta-testing app housed within a mobile beta-testing app environment.
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