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You're right, scammers will likely just make new accounts and publish new apps, but if Google took down the apps immediately and informed all users that the app

You're right, scammers will likely just make new accounts and publish new apps, but if Google took down the apps immediately and informed all users that the app they installed was a scam, they would've prevented $millions from being stolen. The justice system should eventually track down and lock up the people responsible, but the service providers (Google, Apple, etc.) are the only ones who can - and should be obligated to - stop actively facilitating financial crimes.

AnthonyMouse 2y ago
> if Google took down the apps immediately and informed all users that the app they installed was a scam, they would've prevented $millions from being stolen. But this is the same problem. They're using some unreliable heuristics to detect this sort of thing and they have false positives. So you're proposing that they authoritatively assert that something is a scam and destroy the reputation of untold innocent people on the basis of some unreliable machine learning algorithm. The innocent people would sue them and it would be hard to blame them. > the service providers (Google, Apple, etc.) are the only ones who can - and should be obligated to - stop actively facilitating financial crimes. Except that they can't, because they don't have a fact finding apparatus that can accurately determine if a crime is being committed or not.
- dns_snek 2y ago
  God no, I don't want them to delegate the job to any sort of automated process. > Except that they can't, because they don't have a fact finding apparatus that can accurately determine if a crime is being committed or not. I want them to hire people who actually do the job and clean up their own mess. They need to perform extensive background checks on any application dealing with finance, which they apparently don't do at all. If you open their website [1], you're immediately presented with an offer to make over $4000 just by registering. As soon as you click that, they even show you a 5 minute timer to put you under time pressure. This is extremely low hanging fruit in the world of obvious and less obvious scams. [1] https://www.yobit.net/en/ https://www.yobit.net/en/

AnthonyMouse 2y ago

> if Google took down the apps immediately and informed all users that the app they installed was a scam, they would've prevented $millions from being stolen. But this is the same problem. They're using some unreliable heuristics to detect this sort of thing and they have false positives. So you're proposing that they authoritatively assert that something is a scam and destroy the reputation of untold innocent people on the basis of some unreliable machine learning algorithm. The innocent people would sue them and it would be hard to blame them. > the service providers (Google, Apple, etc.) are the only ones who can - and should be obligated to - stop actively facilitating financial crimes. Except that they can't, because they don't have a fact finding apparatus that can accurately determine if a crime is being committed or not.

dns_snek 2y ago
God no, I don't want them to delegate the job to any sort of automated process. > Except that they can't, because they don't have a fact finding apparatus that can accurately determine if a crime is being committed or not. I want them to hire people who actually do the job and clean up their own mess. They need to perform extensive background checks on any application dealing with finance, which they apparently don't do at all. If you open their website [1], you're immediately presented with an offer to make over $4000 just by registering. As soon as you click that, they even show you a 5 minute timer to put you under time pressure. This is extremely low hanging fruit in the world of obvious and less obvious scams. [1] https://www.yobit.net/en/ https://www.yobit.net/en/