The Google Play Store could be stealing your bank details

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The official Google Play Store you are not stealing bank details from users, but it exists a copy of the Google app store that is stealing these bank details. And that is why we express it like this, because it is a store so similar to the official one, that you could have it installed on your smartphone without realizing it.

Actually, we are talking about a store named as Googl Stoy app. As you can deduce, it is not the official Google store, the Google Play Store, but a false copy of the store that tries to deceive users with an interface that resembles that of the official store.

The official Google store is a trusted application for users. In fact, they enter their bank details to buy new applications. And that is why she has been chosen for this deception. Users install the application without thinking that it may be malware. However, once installed and running, it starts throwing error messages. The problem is that in parallel it is obtaining our bank details and sending them to a server.

Hackers can use this data to steal money from us directly, or if they prefer to avoid potential problems, they simply sell the bank details to organizations that are willing to steal our money.

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How to avoid these apps

The key to avoiding these applications is very clear. First of all, you have to make sure that it really is the original application. It is something that we can deduce very easily. Normally these applications do not usually have the same name, or they usually have bad translations into our language. In addition, we cannot install these applications if we download apps only from Google Play. In fact, in Settings> Security we can make sure that we do not install any application that is not from Google Play, if we have the Unknown sources option deactivated. Also don't miss this article about how to avoid installing malware on an Android smartphone.


  1.   gerahdz said

    And then why put that yellow title? They make believe that the officer is the one who steals the data.