Scammers offer to help iPhone developers defraud Apple

[BrettArchibald]

Interesting article over at AppleInsider.com...

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.

Scammers offer to help iPhone developers defraud Apple

[coconutbowling]

Originally Posted by BrettArchibald

Interesting article over at AppleInsider.com...



Scammers offer to help iPhone developers defraud Apple

People these days...

Devs like these deserve to be punished. Jail maybe? I dunno, but this sickens me.

[Zwilnik]

Of course it's the dev that would end up with all the trouble when it's discovered too. Apart from having to refund *all* the money from the fraudulent sales to Apple, they'd be the ones getting the visit from the FBI or Scotland Yard.

It's a pretty typical tactic for this type of fraudster to use a middleman who'll take the fall when it gets discovered. Otherwise they'd simply set themselves up as iPhone devs, write a sound button app and get all the money.

[supg328911]

wow they find away to do every possible illegal thing...