Google has taken legal action against two crypto scammers, filing a civil lawsuit in a New York federal court. The tech giant alleges that the scammers deceived Google into allowing fraudulent apps on its platform, Google Play. Through these apps, over 100,000 individuals worldwide were reportedly conned out of varying amounts of money, ranging from $100 to tens of thousands of dollars each.
The scammers, one based in Shenzhen, China, and the other in Hong Kong, are accused of creating apps that posed as legitimate cryptocurrency exchanges and investment platforms. By misrepresenting their identity, location, and intent, the fraudsters allegedly tricked Google into accepting their apps on Google Play. Despite Google shutting down the fraudulent apps, the scammers continuously uploaded new ones, resulting in a total of 87 fake crypto apps.
