A fraudulent campaign called CallPhantom, involving 28 Android apps on the Google Play Store, has been removed after defrauding millions of users. These apps promised access to call histories and messages for any phone number but instead provided random, embedded data. The campaign did not use malware but relied on subscription fraud, with users paying for a feature that could not deliver. AI
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RANK_REASON Removal of malicious apps from a platform.
