{"id":31612,"date":"2021-02-09T16:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31612"},"modified":"2021-02-09T16:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:44:05","slug":"scammy-watchchat-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/09\/scammy-watchchat-competitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammy WatchChat Competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alexwatchchat.medium.com\/getting-your-ios-app-of-3-years-wiped-out-by-scammers-with-fake-ratings-or-apple-how-on-dfca2b8af1ca\">WatchChat Alex<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatchChatInfo\/status\/1358825883465904131\">tweet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2021\/02\/09\/apple-how-on-earth-can-you-look-away\/\">Dave Mark<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/alexwatchchat.medium.com\/getting-your-ios-app-of-3-years-wiped-out-by-scammers-with-fake-ratings-or-apple-how-on-dfca2b8af1ca\"><p>I have spent the last four years of my life working on my very successful app only to have it ruined by scam apps with <em>very obvious<\/em> fake reviews as well as false advertising claims that Apple does not take action against. I can literally prove they are fake but Apple refuses to take action for undisclosed reasons, allowing thousands of more people getting scammed by these apps day by day.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As this app has gained more traction, we see real people rating the app, visualized by the constant stream of 1&#x2013;2 negative reviews per day. Once the bad reviews get too heavy on the app, the developer just buys more than 200 positive reviews on a single day.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>On their review order, they forgot to change the subject from what they usually order reviews for. The fake reviews literally comment Instagram-related stuff on a WhatsApp app.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>To make these fake reviews look legitimate, the scammers have scraped reviews of MY application.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The developer uses screenshots&#8230; my screenshots!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/03\/scammy-keywatch-and-trezor-apps\/\">Scammy KeyWatch and Trezor Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WatchChat Alex (tweet, Dave Mark): I have spent the last four years of my life working on my very successful app only to have it ruined by scam apps with very obvious fake reviews as well as false advertising claims that Apple does not take action against. I can literally prove they are fake but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-02-09T21:44:08Z","apple_news_api_id":"ad5f7887-af59-4a0e-9f25-4b09436ce306","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-02-09T21:44:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ArV94h69ZSg6fJUsJQ2zjBg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,2036,31,1837,26,1212,1363],"class_list":["post-31612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-app-store-scams","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-watchos","tag-whatsapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31613,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612\/revisions\/31613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}