Comment by Merad
9 years ago
I'm willing to bet that this is some kind of money laundering operation, a way to pull funds from stolen credit cards, or perhaps a way for "tech support" type scammers to get payment from their victims. Perhaps all of they above. I know some extremely technology illiterate people, but I can't think of any of them who would willingly pay $400 a month for "virus protection."
> but I can't think of any of them who would willingly pay $400 a month for "virus protection."
Not willingly and probably not a full month, but I could imagine that some users accidentally subscribe to the $100 "trial" period - it really is just a quick Touch ID press away. The price and charge frequency is listed in a small font size for a brief moment before you press that button. I guess many users will stop that subscriptions once the first charge is done...and they are able to find the subscription options buried deep in the iOS settings app. Considering how essential subscriptions are these days I find it troubling that managing them is such a well hidden feature in iOS.