Right, there’s a shiny new scam pirouetting into the crypto party and it’s not hiding in some dark corner-it’s in Apple’s glossy App Store. Hackers swagger in as fake trading gurus, uploading crypto apps that look exactly like the Web3 darlings we pretend to trust. 😒📱🪙
Not a brand-new plot twist, I grant you. The crooks are raiding old Apple developer accounts, renaming the apps, and giving them a glossy makeover until they pass as completely legitimate. It’s a late-night facelift for a villain in a suit. 💼🔧🦹
The fake apps climb the search results like sly influencers, easy to trust if you’re not paying attention. You download, you transfer, and then-poof-the funds vanish faster than your motivation on a Monday. 🚀💸💨
A crypto user on X, PixOnChain, sounded the alarm. Two users reportedly lost about $28,000 after downloading one of these fakes. “This is real, folks,” he probably added, while wondering where his common sense wandered off to. ☕🕵️♂️
BREAKING: new scam hitting the app store
scammers are buying old apple dev accounts and renaming the apps to look like popular web3 trading dapps
they show up high in search, look 100% legit, but once you send funds…
it’s instantly drained
two people lost $28k to this today…
– PixOnChain
He wrote that these apps are popping up more often in recent weeks: “Scammers are buying old Apple dev accounts and renaming the apps to look like popular web3 trading dapps. They show up high in search, look 100% legit, but once you send funds, it’s instantly drained.” 🕵️♀️
In the comment sections, folks share their own horror stories. “Downloaded this yesterday at the wake of Binance meme szn and it was asking me to manually input my private key, bro who does that?”-a fine example of red flags in neon. No genuine crypto app asks for your private key, ever. 🙄🔑
Mostly, these con artists are banking on the aura of authority and the current crypto craze. By harvesting abandoned but verified developer accounts, these fake apps slip past Apple’s screening and pretend to be trustworthy. Nice try, scammers, but the show’s on mute for a reason. 🕶️
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2025-10-09 23:17