Article 5GWR3 Apple approved another secret gambling den, masquerading as a puzzle game

Apple approved another secret gambling den, masquerading as a puzzle game

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Sean Hollister
from The Verge on (#5GWR3)
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This morning, I wrote how Apple's $64 billion-a-year App Store isn't catching incredibly obvious multimillion-dollar scams because the company isn't even bothering to audit its most profitable apps for fraud, and how app developer Kosta Eleftheriou is showing the company how it's done.

But that's not the only kind of scam Eleftheriou has been uncovering in Apple's App Store - he has also discovered that Apple's review teams have been approving games that transform into secret gambling dens when you access them from certain countries (or via VPN). We wrote about two of them last Thursday as if they were an isolated incident, but he's now found at least two more, suggesting this may be a trend - including a match-three puzzle game dubbed L...

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