Apple has very strict rules in the App Store , so that for a developer it is not as easy to publish their application in this store as it is with the Google Play Store. For example, there are several categories of apps that have no place on the platform, while there are also certain practices that the company considers prohibited.
On the other hand, as we have already mentioned at some point or other, Apple now requires very high transparency in the use of recovered data, also forcing applications to request users’ permission to be able or not to track them.
If to all that, we also add that the submission process necessarily requires the intervention of an Apple specialist before the application is officially published in the App Store, in reality it is certainly difficult to find prohibited or malicious applications . But, on occasion, it can happen.
In fact, it is true that there are devious ways to deceive the supervision and surveillance of the various Apple specialists. And this is what has happened with an online casino , which established a monitoring system in order to deceive Apple.
The Casino app that actually posed as a children’s game
With the name Jungle Runner 2k21, users could find a “fun racing game” in the App Store, where a monkey is the protagonist of the app, which runs on different platforms and collects bananas.
So far, as we can see, we would find ourselves before an app to play seemingly innocent. However, behind this facade there is an unreliable casino app , which charges users money in exchange for random rewards. In addition, to avoid the commission imposed by Apple (which ranges between 15 to 30 percent), this online casino integrates its own payment system.
When the game is used from certain countries (such as Italy, Turkey or Kazakhstan), the application opens an internal browser that shows an online casino, which is promoted as safe (for example, it meets the requirements of the GDPR), but several users have complained that it was actually a scam as nothing is ever won .
The strangest of all is that this online casino is accessible from any web browser in the world, but the developers of the app have taken advantage of dishonest methods to deceive the algorithm of the App Store in order to bypass the filters.
