Mon, Aug 12, 2024
Fake UPI apps imitating popular platforms like GPay, PhonePe, and Paytm are reportedly circulating on app stores. Fraudsters are targeting small traders and daily wage workers, especially those who do not use sound boxes—a device that helps merchants confirm digital payments easily. Here's how to detect them and how to be safe.
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Fri, Sep 09, 2022
Finance Ministry took steps on illegal applications. Now only whitelisted legal apps will be available on the App Store. RBI to prepare white list of all legal apps. Watch this video for more details.
Fri, Jun 10, 2022
Odisha Police's EOW (Economic Offence Wing) has notified Google to remove fake loan apps from Google Play Store due to grave complaints. According to EOW, there are about 45 fake apps that are harassing customers for money and are illegally disbursing short-term loans to users.
Fri, May 13, 2022
Google has made many changes in its developer policy regarding personal loan apps. Now the lending apps will have to provide some necessary documents to Google to remain on the Google Play Store. App developers will have to complete the personal loan app declaration. Not only this, all the necessary documents will also have to be submitted to run the app. Only those apps that offer personal loans will be placed on Google Play Store, which have a license from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The license given by RBI will also have to be submitted. Google will no longer allow personal loan apps in the Google Play Store without a license from the Reserve Bank of India. With the implementation of the new rules, the arbitrariness and fraud of personal loan providing apps are expected to be curbed. Now in view of this, Google has tightened the rules for loan app developers.
Wed, May 11, 2022
With the advent of smartphones, while many tasks related to the Internet have become easier, on the other hand, it has also increased the threat to our privacy. In the coming days, such reports are heard in which the incident of theft of money from users data and bank accounts by hackers is mentioned. Hackers usually prey on smartphone users through fake and virus-laden apps. In these apps, hackers enter malicious code along with the virus, which gives them full access to the user's smartphone. To weed out fake apps and fraudulent companies duping gullible borrowers, fintech firms have come together to share intelligence between themselves and the Reserve Bank of India. The Fintech Association has reported 50 to 100 fraudulent firms. Many of these apps are also available on the Google Play Store. In such a situation, how to identify fake apps? Watch this special report of Aapki Khabar Aapka Fayda.
Thu, Mar 11, 2021
It is a big warning from the findings of a research! Some Android apps can steal your bank details and take over your phone, which means a big loss of money. According to a report in BGR, some Android apps can take over your phone, steal bank details and can take away all your money.
Wed, Jun 26, 2019
Tech giant Google probably needs to work on its app approval stage as a team of researchers claim to have found more than 2,000 malware-laden apps on Google Play,
Fri, Mar 15, 2019
Due to negligence we let scammers and hackers intrude into our devices through fake apps.
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