In today's world everyone needs everything for free. Yes and many times there are big losses in the affair of free. In today's time, most of us have UPI, digital wallets and net banking apps, through which almost all our financial details are now available on our smartphones. Yes, and this is what hackers are now taking advantage of and due to this, it has become necessary for us to be wary of any online scam.
However, many times, even while being careful, we have an accident with us. In fact, they protect themselves by not downloading files from anonymous sources and not clicking on unknown links. But what happens when the online scam takes place on one of the most trusted places i.e. the Google Play Store? Yes, there are no two opinions that we download free apps and games without thinking from the Play Store. However, the same thing proved to be quite dangerous for a woman, who lost thousands of rupees after just downloading a free app. Let's tell you about it.
The case is of Essex, UK, where Sarah Bruce, a mother of two, suddenly found out that her son had downloaded a free app, which made him 109. He has charged a hefty fee of £99 or about Rs 10,000. Yes, and he told Sun Online about the incident. "My son had my phone, he was watching something on YouTube and an ad flashed for a game called 'Epic Slime – Fancy ASMR Slime Game Sim'. After taking a look at the app, he didn't find anything suspicious in it, so he told his son that he could download it. And then, this happened to them. He further informed, "Then I got £109 from Google Play. Got an email saying thank you for the purchase of Epic Slime in 99. "
However after that £68 as the first payment for the app's weekly subscription. A fee of Rs 99 (approximately Rs 6,600) was charged. At the same time, when she contacted Google, they only told that it is not in their policy to return the money and she will have to take up the issue with the app developer. At the same time, after repeatedly contacting the developer and making several reports to Google, she managed to get the subscription fee back, but £109. Not 99. The Google Play Store has run out of that free app, which cost her too much.
To avoid free app scams, you can do this: If possible, do not link your bank account to the Google Play Store, so as to prevent automatic transactions. Apart from this, whenever your phone is used by children, make sure that they do not download any app without your permission, not even from the Google Play Store. At the same time, whenever you download an app, do not rush at all and do not move forward without reading its information. Apart from this, if you come under the contact of such a malicious app, report to Google immediately.
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