Article 5TYWY Alleged Apple App Store scammer AmpMe lowers prices and says it’ll investigate its ‘consultants’

Alleged Apple App Store scammer AmpMe lowers prices and says it’ll investigate its ‘consultants’

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Sean Hollister
from The Verge on (#5TYWY)
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AmpMe isn't a brand-new app that popped up just to scam unsuspecting users out of their money. See the photo atop this post? That's from 2015, when we first covered the idea: an app that can sync up a room full of smartphones into a single gigantic speaker with no fees in sight. But as App Store scam hunter Kosta Eleftheriou points out, the app looks seriously shady more than six years later - if you downloaded it yesterday, it would immediately try to sell you on a $9.99 a week automatic recurring subscription. That's $520 a year, an incredible sum if you pull it out as a party trick and then forget to cancel.

AppFigures estimates the app has raked in $13 million since 2018.

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