Android app advertising scam – The hard cookie to crack for Google!
The Internet Giant Google is striving continuously to fight irrational traffic and puts to use several filters & machine leaning models. It further makes collaborations with advertisers, publishers, tech ad companies, law enforcement agencies & other third-party corporations in order to locate & avoid potential threats. Still a recent report bared many popular Android apps that tracked user’s behavior & carried out a tremendous multimillion-dollar ad hoax strategy. A report from BuzzFeed News Investigation exposed around 125 Android apps & websites that have stolen millions of dollars through a forged advertising network. In response to the incident, Google clamped down & blacklisted several apps & websites and tightened its restrictions. Method of Operation of Ad Fraud 1. Scammers from a fake front company “We Purchase Apps” purchased established & legitimate applications on the Google Play Store from the developers. With the purchase, scamm...