The fake Trezor app is no longer available on the App Store.Īpple spokesperson Fred Sainz has said in a statement to Washington Post, “User trust is at the foundation of why we created the App Store, and we have only deepened that commitment in the years since.”Īlso Read: After Duping 1 Crore Users, Fraud 'Updates For Samsung' App Removed From Google Play Store
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Oddly enough, Trezor’s App is only available on Android and the original report highlights that the company had notified Apple and Google about fake apps for a few years now. But after the app got submitted, it soon turned into a crypto wallet and slipped right under Apple’s radar.Īlso Read: She Pulled Off World's Biggest Crypto Scam, Stole Rs 28,500 Crore With Fake 'OneCoin' Apps on the App Store are known to go through a stringent process of verifications before they go live on the store.Īpple claims that at the time of signing up, the app posed to be a cryptography app used to encrypt iPhone files and passwords and at the time the app developer had highlighted that the app has nothing to do with cryptocurrency. According to the report, he had hoped his bitcoins would have helped in saving his dry-cleaning business which was affected by the pandemic.Īpple has had a reputation for being the most secure when it comes to its app on its App Store, at least when compared to Google’s Play Store.
The app was fake and it was designed to look legit and fool innocent people into entering their confidential details and within no time, Christodoulou found out that his bitcoins were stolen from him. However, later he found out that would be one of the worst mistakes of his life.Īlso Read: US Teen Who Hacked Twitter And Ran Bitcoin Scam Gets 3 Years In Prison The app looked just like the original with the green background and the padlock logo, so without hesitating, he downloaded the app.
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Philippe Christodoulou wanted to check the value of his 17.1 bitcoins, and instead came to a disastrous realization of having to deal with losing his life savings.Īs reported by The Washington Post, to access the wallet, he decided to download the Trezor app (a company that’s known for its hardware wallets) on the iOS App Store. An iPhone user has lost over $600,000 after a scamming cryptocurrency app was cleared by Apple’s stringent App Store policies.
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