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Comment by tinus_hn

9 years ago

I don't understand why such an obvious scam works; Apple keeps the money for a while so they should be able to cancel the developer account and refund all users.

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valuearb  9 years ago

There is a 35-60 day lag time in getting paid. If you started scamming May 1st, you wont' be getting paid until the first week in July for your May scam sales, so there is the potential in freezing the account.

I found a scam competitor once and reported it to Apple and they pulled it just before the payment day so I'm hoping he never got paid.

maaaats  9 years ago

Apple earns 30% per scammed user and let the app pass through review. The implication is obvious.

  • vacri  9 years ago

    The whole point of the App store and Apple's bragging about it was that you were in a walled garden, and shit like this didn't happen. It's in their own interest not to kill their golden goose by allowing this kind of scam in their garden.

sumedh  9 years ago

Someone needs to report the scam and then wait for Apple to do their review. If nobody reports it, the scammer makes a lot of money till that time.

  • tyingq  9 years ago

    There does seem to be some opportunity to inject common sense in there though. How common, for example, is a $100/week in-app purchase? Seems like there's some threshold that should kick off a review automatically.

    • paultopia  9 years ago

      Yes, that. This is not a difficult problem. App purchase behavior that is more than a couple of standard deviations away from ordinary, but successful, apps should trigger a heavy human review.