Unable to reach anyone to report a fraudulent App

XZoltan The default should be set by Apple to the passcode being needed straight away. However the issue here is why these apps are getting approved. Many people will not be diving into these options, for whatever reason. I usually have these things locked down but in this case I made an assumption the password protection was exactly that.

Our kids are not unsupervised. Dad can I download this, I took a very quick look, it looked like a top down driving lane switch game, it was free like many games. So I entered the password and said yes. Trusting the hoops people have to jump through on the apple approval process (wrongly of course) and that the password was protecting in-app by default.

The people creating these apps are exploiting a failure of the approval process and of the product defaults knowing full well that the apps they have are targetting kids. That is not right in my oppinion.

Spamming the app store to promote the ranking and also drown out the comments of people complaining (yes I know you can sort them by worst review but again this is default behaviour).

Settting and cjoice are great. I am more than happy to have those.

I still do not see what the £99 is for on this particular app to regardless of the settings it does not meet Apple's publishgn guidelines and is there as a scam.

I do not want anyone else to fall foul of this. Apple were not able to refund as I had already reported it as fraudlent payement to the credit card company. Who repsonded a lot quicker than Apple did to my query on the transaction.

Apples developer policy that we all have to abide by "11.11 In general, the more expensive your App, the more thoroughly we will review it"

I am not sure what their review process did in this (or the suite of others) but it seems to be failing?

Otherwise it means I can write an app, pop it in the store and suggest to people that for £99.99 they will get some great content and sell them the most fabulous pixel ?

It is not honest or decent, and appears fraudulent

I am not making spurious claims as it is a fact that these are charging this amount for little or no content.

Obviously the ultimate protection is to not use any apps on any device but that would seem a little over the top.

I would be more than happy to have the discussion with the developers themselves of these apps but they seema little hard to get in contact with.

Do you know what the instore purchases are for in these apps? Can you work that out from the descriptions? I still don't see what they were even attempting to charge for. "baby games", "kids games", "delux mode".

Also why all the positive reviews with names that seem to be generated and short answers?

Is it £99.99 because it looks a little like £0.99?

This is not an unregulated random websote they are being sold on, it is an apparently policed and reviewed store.

It is also not isolated Apple have allowed these for a long while it appears. I am sure they refund most people who spot it, but a certain percentage will not find the right way to complain or report it. So the developer gets money for nothing and so does Apple?

Anyway, it seems I am in the minority here.

Sir, I do agree with you. It does clearly state that it is going to take large amount of money for nothing. So thats all ok then. So I hope that Apple and the developer are happy with the way they do business. I have nothing againgt free to play with in app purchases, but the level of purchase for the lack of content if the problem. It is a scam. Are you related to the developer or do you develop such apps? I know that I would be very unhappy with any business practices of this nature, but eachunto their own I guess.

We shall have to leave it as they are happy to gather money in such ways and I am not. Thankyou for your attention on the matter.

Likewise Sir, my bad. I didn't read the entire thing to determine that I was giving permission for them to rip my 6 year old off.

Once again I am sorry it you were offended at the question (actually directed at James Ward4) about whether you develop apps. Though that is was not really there to offend, more to ask about any affiliation. I agree the Apple aproach is very much better, but I would like to be able to rely on it a bit more. If things like this get through the process then what else is lurking.

I wish we had not nealry got caught, I am happy apple attempted a refund but I really am thinking about the other families that are likely to be hit an taken by these who really dont need this sort of hassle.

They are the people who wil not frequent these forums, engage in these heated debates nor be aware of what might be waiting for them.