Apple just removed hundreds of fake shopping apps from the App Store

Macworld
Nov 7, 2016, 3:00 pm957 pts
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the iOS App Store is seeing a deluge of fake shopping apps branding themselves with designer names in hopes of trapping gullible buyers. Apple is now stepping in to remove the counterfeit apps, which are sneaking in by changing the content after Apple’s approval or…

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