{"id":42524,"date":"2024-03-15T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42524"},"modified":"2024-03-15T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:25:31","slug":"fake-bitcoin-wallet-in-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/15\/fake-bitcoin-wallet-in-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Bitcoin Wallet in the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/1b3q5wr\/fake_wallet_on_apple_app_store\/\">Even_Fan9110<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/1b3q5wr\/fake_wallet_on_apple_app_store\/\"><p>I got C$ 150k drained from my all my accounts right in front of my eyes after I put my seed phrase into this fake app from the apple Apple Store. I can&rsquo;t believe apple lets apps like this on their App Store. Beware people don&rsquo;t download <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/ca\/app\/bitcoin-wallet-btc-vault\/id6474965537\">this<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=39685272\">habeanf<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/firt\/status\/1767942252855173123\">Maximiliano Firtman<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=39685272\"><p>Earlier today I decided to switch my Android for an iPhone. After moving all my apps I decided to make the jump and move my bitcoin from the android wallet. I searched for &lsquo;bitcoin wallet&rsquo; on the Apple App Store, installed the first app I saw (as far as I could tell, looks legit), transferred bitcoin, and it immediately got sent off. Turns out this app was previously reported at least 12 days ago as a scam but its still up there, #1 search result.<\/p><p>I get that I&rsquo;ve failed to vet the app but honestly, how does a scam app become the #1 organic search result (not promoted) in the app store, topping binance, blockchain.com, and coinbase?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/dealmachine-subscription-cancellations\/\">DealMachine Subscription Cancellations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/19\/fraudulent-rabby-wallet-app\/\">Fraudulent Rabby Wallet App<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even_Fan9110: I got C$ 150k drained from my all my accounts right in front of my eyes after I put my seed phrase into this fake app from the apple Apple Store. I can&rsquo;t believe apple lets apps like this on their App Store. Beware people don&rsquo;t download this. habeanf (via Maximiliano Firtman): Earlier today [&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":"2024-03-15T19:25:33Z","apple_news_api_id":"ad11fd02-c0d4-4bb2-90a5-e8d0f371c0e6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-03-15T19:25:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ArRH9AsDUS7KQpejQ83HA5g","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":[91,2036,914,31,2321,26,343],"class_list":["post-42524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-app-store-scams","tag-bitcoin","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-iosapp","tag-search"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524","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=42524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42525,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524\/revisions\/42525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}