appleinsider.com - 4/8/2009
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Third party iPhone App Store developers have received propositions from a scammer offering to buy large volumes of their iPhone applications and then split the resulting revenue with them, apparently using fraudulent iTunes gift certificates to make the purchases.
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Scammers Target App Store Developers
Mac|Life —
app store AppleInsider received a curious email that was sent to the developer of iPhone app TiltMeter Pro. The email states that the sender has been "taking a look into your application" and states that they have iTunes US, UK and Canadian gift certificate codes which they would use to purchase the the app in question and splits the earnings from those purchases with developer 50-50. In other words, the scammer buys multiple copies of an app and the developer shares the the earnings they receive from Apple with the scammer. Not exactly rocket science. Counterfeiters have ...
Scammers solicit iPhone App Store developers in attempt to defraud Apple
MacDailyNews —
... iTunes mobile software purchases, which the company pays directly to developers. Counterfeiters have already mastered the algorithm used to generate fraudulent iTunes gift certificate numbers, but can only sell the fake certificates for pennies on the dollar, as few consumers are willing to pay anything significant for the opportunity to download free iTunes while incurring the substantial risk of being caught with a paper trail tied directly to their iTunes account." Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "qka" for the heads up.] ...
iTunes Gift Code Hackers Turn Attention to iPhone App Developers [Software]
Gizmodo —
... This kind of tactic undermines what's so cool about the App Store— a nobody can make something hundreds of thousands of people will love, and make money doing it, just on the merits of the creation. That's rare in the software industry, where software is pirated almost on principle, and it'd be a shame to see the App Store corrupted. [AppleInsider and ...
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