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$100 is nothing to organized scammers. These scammers make enough money that they can hire their own developers and buy layers of mules to get their apps on the
by heavyset_go 4y ago
$100 is nothing to organized scammers. These scammers make enough money that they can hire their own developers and buy layers of mules to get their apps on the App Store.
The vast majority of these scams don't rely on custom apps, though. They rely on apps that are used for legitimate reasons, but can also give scammers access to computers, like TeamViewer or AnyDesk. The App Store model does nothing to stop these scams.
- simondotau 4y agoYou misunderstand, it’s not the $100 which thwarts scammers, it’s the prospect of having to find 1,000 distinct credit cards and spend $100,000 to programmatically spin up 1,000 developer accounts. If accounts were free, scammers could abuse this process en masse.