Scam app AmpMe rakes in $13m on the back of thousands of fake reviews
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What you need to know AmpMe has been using thousands of fake reviews to make itself appear to be a popular app. App Store critic Kosta Eleftheriou believes the app has raked in $13 million since 2008. AmpMe has a $10 weekly subscription costing users $520 per year. The app has a $10 per week subscription that charges people a massive $520 every year. Following a self-congratulatory press release in which Apple lauded its App Store and plethora of services, another scam app has been outed by critic Kosta Eleftheriou. A music app named AmpMe has an in-app purchase that enables a $10 per week subscription that runs $520 per year with the business built around thousands of fake App Store reviews. Eleftheriou outed the app via a long Twitter thread in which he details how the app has been able to amass income of around $13 million since 2018 — mainly thanks to the huge number of reviews that have been left in an attempt to make the app appear legitimate. Those fake reviews are fro...