MONOPOLY Free for Android removed from Play Store due to scam

It seems incredible that in these times, with so many advances in computer security, cases like the one that I am going to tell you about continue to happen, which is that the application MONOPOLY free for Android It has been removed from the Play Store supposedly for being a malicious application.

One of the things that Android differs from its more direct competitors such as iOS o Windows PhoneIt is the one that is a system totally open to modifications, something that in cases like the one I am telling you now can be more of an inconvenience than a benefit for the end user.

The point is that the application MONOPOLY free, has been withdrawn from the market of applications of Android for being a supposedly malicious application that was dedicated to sending premium messages with the high cost that this implies for our telephone bill.

In the screenshot I have highlighted the permits that requested this free application for Android and that it has nothing to do with the original application of Monopoly.

As we can see, with the installation of the application in our terminal we gave permissions to send SMS or even lower the volume of the audio, in this way the application was able to send the aforementioned Premium SMS Without our realizing it, and as it could also control the sounds of our device, it silenced them so that we did not receive any notification of what was happening with the sending of these payment messages to special services.

Luckily Google has already rushed to withdraw the application from the Play Store, although that if, after a few thousand users were affected by this scam.

We want to remind you that to avoid being scammed as much as possible by an application of this style, it is very important observe the permits that the applications that we are going to install on our Android request us, and in case of seeing any anomaly, apart from of course do not install it, notify Google of the abuse of the application.

More information – Download Play Store 4.0.26 and earlier versions

Source - YAHOO! Finance