Google is to launch an application in the Portuguese category Main News Free Google Play stealing money to users without them being aware. The application programmers IQ Test Best App Of The Year was in 19th position of prominence.
In the comments of the various software users complain they have been victims of a fraud by the application. The TeK decided to experiment and reports are true: users lose more than four euros without realizing it.
When the application is installed the person is informed that the application requires access to editing and reading SMS and MMS and” services that require payment “as well as” full network access. ” In the case of the Android smartphone TeK where the application was installed has a manager permissions through notifications. All the features you asked access to SMS and SIM card were blocked.
It is a note that is never said, anywhere, that will be sent to that SMS that can result in the collection of money. 
The Game itself to a test of intelligence quotient, is too basic and quickly is possible to notice that something is not right. Altogether there are 18 questions.
For the results users have to press two buttons, one with the promise of participation in a contest where you win an iPad.
The result of IQ appears on the screen and the game ends. When the user returns to the main screen of Android sees that received three SMS messaging services value added. The most serious is that two messages were sent in the name of the person with activation codes such services, without the user actually had done so.
Even with manager permissions, the application led to better IQ Test. There seems to be a policy of using improper access to the phone. Although at the time of installation the application has requested access to editing and reading SMS and MMS and “services that require payment,” the user never consent at a later stage of sending messages and spend money.
The application in question, the IQ Test, are all written in Portuguese and email features of programmers is a reference to the domain. PT. Companies that are referred to in text messages – and the Cellon Trivicell – already have a history of scams to users through schemes and online messages.
Altogether already have been swindled thousands of people, given the number of downloads the application records – more than ten thousand, largely because of the prominent position it has on Google Play. The damage can go now also several thousand euros. The TeK already ordered a review to Google. The article will be updated when Google decide on the case. Written under the new Orthographic Agreement
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