Comment by Arnt
10 hours ago
This started with phishing, poor people being tricked to install apps that then drained their bank accounts. So to resist, maybe focus on that evil? Better international cooperation, better prosecution?
10 hours ago
This started with phishing, poor people being tricked to install apps that then drained their bank accounts. So to resist, maybe focus on that evil? Better international cooperation, better prosecution?
> This started with phishing
It didn't.
Phishing is just a pretext. Google didn't care about Phishing for the first 20 years of Android. Why do they now? Because it serves as argument to close their platform a little more (which is a trend that has been going on for years).
I think they care now because of pressure from the governments of the countries involved.
And perhaps because ten and twenty years ago, the sums stolen were small. Now they're in the billions.
How do you explain that all the scammers I've entertained used apps that are already on the store?
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I do think it's about Google trying to squeeze profits out of Android, but is there more direct evidence of this? Cause I always have to wonder if it's something else like KYC.
Of course Google generally tries to squeeze profits out of… whatever it does, but eh, by closing something? Google is the company that makes a million in profit from the openness of the web in the time it takes me to write this paragraph, why would that company think that closing something improves its competitive stance?
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All scams attempt I received from "hot asian ladies" involved putting my savings in apps that are already on the google app store.
The scam apps are already in there. Please stop repeating google's propaganda.
or how about don't allow government and banks and telcos to use abusive apps to provide essential services?
those people fall for this because for everything poor people do, they need an app that is provided by sleazy vendors and that require tons of permission, and face scan and what not. they were primed so those business could save in operating costs.
that's the problem. won't solve it with slightly less sleazy vendors.
We can't even get India and Turkey sanctioned for evading the anti-Russian sanctions... good luck holding them accountable for the scam callcenters.