{"id":42165,"date":"2024-02-19T20:42:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42165"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:43:42","slug":"fraudulent-rabby-wallet-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/19\/fraudulent-rabby-wallet-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudulent Rabby Wallet App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/02\/19\/fake-cypto-app-on-the-app-store\/\">Filipe Esp&oacute;sito<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/02\/19\/fake-cypto-app-on-the-app-store\/\"><p>As shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rabby_io\/status\/1758476458559738181\">Rabby Wallet on X<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/apple-yet-to-remove-fake-rabby-wallet-app-despite-users-being-drained\"><em>CoinTelegraph<\/em><\/a>), there&rsquo;s an imposter app available on the App Store using the platform&rsquo;s name and identity. Named &ldquo;Rabby Wallet &amp; Crypto Solution,&rdquo; the app has been available on the App Store for at least four days. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CryptoCurrency\/comments\/1atfvgy\/awareness_of_fake_rabby_wallet_app_in_appstore\/?share_id=QDCzypk8K8hEy7B5oQNWh\">Reddit<\/a>, some users claim to have had their money stolen by the fake crypto app.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Affected users have been trying to contact Apple to warn the company about the scam, as well as the real developers behind Rabby Wallet. However, days later, the imposter crypto app remains available on the App Store. Furthermore, Rabby Wallet claims to have submitted its official app to the App Store, but Apple approved the fake app before the real one.<\/p><p>Unfortunately, this is not the first time that a fake Rabby Wallet app for iOS has been approved by Apple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/255482851?sortBy=best\">Apple Support Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/14\/fraudulent-kimi-app\/\">Fraudulent Kimi App<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/09\/fraudulent-lasspass-app\/\">Fraudulent LassPass App<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"fraudulent-rabby-wallet-app-update-2024-02-20\">Update (2024-02-20): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imore.com\/apps\/app-store-approval-woes-continue-as-crypto-scam-steals-thousands-of-dollars-from-users-this-is-insane-and-should-never-happen-on-apple-ecosystem\">John-Anthony Disotto<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.imore.com\/apps\/app-store-approval-woes-continue-as-crypto-scam-steals-thousands-of-dollars-from-users-this-is-insane-and-should-never-happen-on-apple-ecosystem\"><p>It appears that the fake Rabby Wallet application is no longer available as iMore wasn&rsquo;t able to access the listing on the App Store, but the damage has, unfortunately, already been done.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>While every app on the App Store goes through a strict approval process, some can fall through the cracks, like in 2021 when one iPhone user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imore.com\/iphone-user-loses-600000-bitcoin-scam-app-blames-apple\"><u>lost $600,000 in Bitcoin to a similar crypto app scam<\/u><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"fraudulent-rabby-wallet-app-update-2024-02-27\">Update (2024-02-27): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/apple-distributed-fake-crypto-finance-apps-in-app-store-leading-to-100k-losses\/\">Joshua Long<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/apple-distributed-fake-crypto-finance-apps-in-app-store-leading-to-100k-losses\/\">\n<p>It isn&rsquo;t clear exactly when the Curve Finance app first made it into the App Store. The fake Rabby Wallet app was likely available starting on February 14, given the date on which the fake app&rsquo;s Facebook page was created and the first (negative) review was posted.<\/p>\n<p>The fake Curve Finance app somehow had a &ldquo;4.6 out of 5&rdquo; star rating, with apparently nine five-stars and a single one-star rating. Meanwhile, the fake Rabby Wallet app wasn&rsquo;t pre-loaded with fake ratings, so it had a &ldquo;1.0 out of 5&rdquo; due to two one-star ratings.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Both fake finance apps used the real products&rsquo; names. This time the fake apps&rsquo; developers didn&rsquo;t even try to hide behind typosquatting or similarly spelled names; they just went directly for stealing the names of the companies and products they were mimicking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipe Esp&oacute;sito: As shared by Rabby Wallet on X (via CoinTelegraph), there&rsquo;s an imposter app available on the App Store using the platform&rsquo;s name and identity. Named &ldquo;Rabby Wallet &amp; Crypto Solution,&rdquo; the app has been available on the App Store for at least four days. On Reddit, some users claim to have had their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-02-20T01:42:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"2e7ff5b9-6b49-43a9-a3a2-6ee0d642722e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-02-27T15:43:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALn_1uWtJQ6mjom7g1kJyLg","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":[91,2036,914,2563,31,2321,2564],"class_list":["post-42165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-app-store-scams","tag-bitcoin","tag-curve-finance","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-rabby-wallet"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42165","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=42165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42244,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42165\/revisions\/42244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}