Two new articles about my efforts to expose scammers on the App Store:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/08/app-store-scam-apps-how-to-spot/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272849/apple-app-store-scams-ios-fraud-reviews-ratings-flicktype

- Kosta

Hi Kosta,

Thank you for all you are doing trying to be an agent of change in this clearly broken and unfair system.
My daily mobile productivity has been forever changed thanks to FlickType, and I’m happy to do anything I can to support your excellent work and efforts.

Regards,

Matthew

Is it just as easy to buy negative reviews as it is to buy positive ones?

If so, the only solution crazy enough to get Apple to sit up and finally act, might be to completely trash the review system by buying negative reviews for scam apps.

The end result of that, of course, will be that the scammers would start buying negative reviews for good apps, to return the favor. That would likely have the ultimate effect of making reviews completely useless to the average user, which would hopefully get Apple to step in.

I'm not proposing anyone actually start this kind of scorched earth war, but if I can think of it, I'm quite sure somebody else already has.

Luke