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You no longer have to go to a bank to make a payment, thanks to fintech apps like Venmo and PayPal. Seemingly inspired by these apps, the internet is now filled with dangerous SpyLoan apps that pretend to be there to loan you money but have ulterior motives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cybersecurity company ESET\u2019s researchers have discovered that such loan apps are on the rise. These apps target vulnerable people in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America in need of urgent money. Often, these victims can\u2019t access established financial assistance channels.<\/p>\n

In 2022, both Google and Apple removed several SpyLoan apps from their stores. They are also spread through third-party stores and websites.<\/p>\n

18 more apps made their way to Google Play this year and 17 of them were downloaded 12 million times before being removed. One app remains available because its developers changed how it works so it\u2019s no longer considered harmful.<\/p>\n

The perpetrators market the apps through social media platforms such as Twitter (X), Facebook, and YouTube, and text messages.<\/p>\n

SpyLoan apps promise instant loan but charge an unusually high interest rate and expect quick repayment<\/h2>\n
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The apps promise swift financial assistance and use deceptive techniques to get approved on Google Play. To look authentic, they pretend to be closely affiliated with well-known loan providers and financial institutions or are designed to resemble legitimate loan apps. Some even have official websites with a fake board of directors with stock photos and images of office space lifted from other websites.<\/p>\n

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After a SpyLoan app is downloaded, it asks the user to accept the terms of service, grant various permissions including access to call logs, storage, media files, contact lists, and location data, and provide personal details such as address, contact information, bank account information, and photo of the identification card.Once the people behind the apps gain access to all this user information, they start blackmailing the victims to repay them even if a user never applied for a loan or their loan wasn\u2019t approved.<\/p>\n

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Here are the names of the apps:<\/p>\n

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  1. AA Kredit<\/li>\n
  2. Amor Cash<\/li>\n
  3. GuayabaCash<\/li>\n
  4. EasyCredit<\/li>\n
  5. Cashwow<\/li>\n
  6. CrediBus<\/li>\n
  7. FlashLoan<\/li>\n
  8. Pr\u00e9stamosCr\u00e9dito<\/li>\n
  9. Pr\u00e9stamos De Cr\u00e9dito-YumiCash<\/li>\n
  10. Go Cr\u00e9dito<\/li>\n
  11. Instant\u00e1neo Pr\u00e9stamo<\/li>\n
  12. Cartera grande<\/li>\n
  13. R\u00e1pido Cr\u00e9dito<\/li>\n
  14. Finupp Lending<\/li>\n
  15. 4S Cash<\/li>\n
  16. TrueNaira<\/li>\n
  17. EasyCash<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you have already downloaded any of the apps mentioned above, delete them immediately. If someone is getting harassed, they should get in touch with law enforcement authorities. To stay safe, only download apps from trusted sources and go through reviews and ratings before installing an app.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You no longer have to go to a bank to make a payment, thanks to fintech apps like Venmo and PayPal. Seemingly inspired by these apps, the internet is now filled with dangerous SpyLoan apps that pretend to be there to loan you money but have ulterior motives. Cybersecurity company ESET’s researchers have discovered that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":224679301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":255,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224679300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-tips-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224679300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224679300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224679300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224679301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224679300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224679300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonescanada.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224679300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}