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Tech giant Google is reportedly launching a lawsuit against crypto scammers who allegedly employed fake Android apps to reel in their victims.<\/p>\n
According to a new report<\/a> from Reuters, Google is suing Chinese nationals Yunfeng Sun and Hongnam Cheung in New York, accusing them of stealing tens and thousands of dollars worth of digital assets from Google Play App Store customers.<\/p>\n Google says that the duo engaged in social engineering to defraud people, luring them to their fake Android apps through text messages.<\/p>\n As stated in Google\u2019s complaint, according to Reuters,<\/p>\n \u201cThe texts would purport to be from wrong numbers, but then the texters would strike up conversations with the victims, developing \u2018friendships\u2019 and \u2018romantic attachments.\u2019\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n Google says the scammers would then convince their targets to invest money into fake apps and would only allow them to withdraw small amounts of their \u201creturns\u201d before disappearing completely.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen users tried to withdraw larger amounts of their \u2018earnings,\u2019 they were told to pay more money. When victims complained to the \u2018friend\u2019 or \u2018romantic partner\u2019 who had so helpfully guided them through the process, the \u2018friend\u2019 or \u2018romantic partner\u2019 would simply disappear.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n The search engine giant says that Sun and Cheung also used YouTube videos, fake press releases, and social media marketing to give their apps an appearance of legitimacy.<\/p>\n Google said it had to disable 87 fake apps that were downloaded a combined 100,000 times worldwide linked to the bad actors, according to the report.<\/p>\n Don’t Miss a Beat \u2013 Subscribe<\/a> to get email alerts delivered directly to your inbox <\/span><\/em>  <\/p>\n Generated Image: Midjourney<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tech giant Google is reportedly launching a lawsuit against crypto scammers who allegedly employed fake Android apps to reel in their victims. According to a new report from Reuters, Google is suing Chinese nationals Yunfeng Sun and Hongnam Cheung in New York, accusing them of stealing tens and thousands of dollars worth of digital assets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-277752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277763,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277752\/revisions\/277763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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