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sounds like the developer got screwed by his relative, not by Apple

6nf 10y ago
I doubt a relative would post literally thousands of fake reviews over the course of many months without the dev's knowledge
- Mithaldu 10y ago
  Read the post again. Kapeli paid for the dev fee for an account he did not make or control, and gave the person controlling that account hardware he had bought. Apple proceeded to pull a facebook and marked the two accounts as linked and treated them as being the same person. Then the person controlling said account started doing shady stuff, followed by Apple dinging them, but failing to actually follow up with Kapeli's account to see whether that one is actually and in reality controlled by the same person. The relative was acting only on their own and likely not even aware that what they were doing could hurt Kapeli, and vice versa. And Apple knee-jerked without questioning their assumptions.
  - blah-blah-blah 10y ago
    This. Apple should be contacting the App's official developer account link to the App Developer, or all accounts linked to the App's Developer, not just the discovered linked Account. After all, isn;t the official account the one bound by the license and terms of use for the developer's app? If Apple chooses not to notify the App developer's via his official account, but the discovered account. Well, then only the discovered account should be deactivated (and not impact the App). Would apple send a password reset to the discovered linked account or the official account contact? We could insert a few jokes here, but obviously the answer here is the official account email.
  - eridius 10y ago
    > but failing to actually follow up with Kapeli's account to see whether that one is actually and in reality controlled by the same person That doesn't make sense. We're talking about anti-fraud measures here. If they contacted the other account and said "hey are you the same person as this first account?" a fraudster would always say no even if the same person controls both accounts!
    - Mithaldu 10y ago
      There are various ways to verify. Photo id, state id, holders of other associated credit cards (particularly where the cash for the app payments go to). I'm not saying they should ask nicely, but do due diligence.
  - blah-blah-blah 10y ago
    On the other hand, while this might not be the way Apple should have communicated. They do have a point. A linked account was involved in fraudulent activity. Its easy for anyone to say 'Oh, i just paid for that and gave my hardware but thats not mine'. Still doesn't change the reasons for suspicion. It does suck since I really like Dash. One reason why you should not share/use your work CC/bank accounts and Hardware for non-work reasons.

6nf 10y ago

I doubt a relative would post literally thousands of fake reviews over the course of many months without the dev's knowledge

Mithaldu 10y ago
Read the post again. Kapeli paid for the dev fee for an account he did not make or control, and gave the person controlling that account hardware he had bought. Apple proceeded to pull a facebook and marked the two accounts as linked and treated them as being the same person. Then the person controlling said account started doing shady stuff, followed by Apple dinging them, but failing to actually follow up with Kapeli's account to see whether that one is actually and in reality controlled by the same person. The relative was acting only on their own and likely not even aware that what they were doing could hurt Kapeli, and vice versa. And Apple knee-jerked without questioning their assumptions.
- blah-blah-blah 10y ago
  This. Apple should be contacting the App's official developer account link to the App Developer, or all accounts linked to the App's Developer, not just the discovered linked Account. After all, isn;t the official account the one bound by the license and terms of use for the developer's app? If Apple chooses not to notify the App developer's via his official account, but the discovered account. Well, then only the discovered account should be deactivated (and not impact the App). Would apple send a password reset to the discovered linked account or the official account contact? We could insert a few jokes here, but obviously the answer here is the official account email.
- eridius 10y ago
  > but failing to actually follow up with Kapeli's account to see whether that one is actually and in reality controlled by the same person That doesn't make sense. We're talking about anti-fraud measures here. If they contacted the other account and said "hey are you the same person as this first account?" a fraudster would always say no even if the same person controls both accounts!
  - Mithaldu 10y ago
    There are various ways to verify. Photo id, state id, holders of other associated credit cards (particularly where the cash for the app payments go to). I'm not saying they should ask nicely, but do due diligence.
- blah-blah-blah 10y ago
  On the other hand, while this might not be the way Apple should have communicated. They do have a point. A linked account was involved in fraudulent activity. Its easy for anyone to say 'Oh, i just paid for that and gave my hardware but thats not mine'. Still doesn't change the reasons for suspicion. It does suck since I really like Dash. One reason why you should not share/use your work CC/bank accounts and Hardware for non-work reasons.