Cctv news：APP— — Refers to the software specially built for the mobile network platform. Apple’s mobile phone users must download the APP in Apple’s official app store. Apple explained that the software on the official app store has undergone strict review to provide users with a safer and more reliable experience. Is Apple’s official platform really safe? Mr. Mou, an Apple mobile phone user in Shandong, recently encountered troubles. He suffered heavy losses after downloading an APP marked as "official platform" in the app store.
In April this year, Mr. Mou from Zibo, Shandong Province, had the idea of buying lottery tickets because of a joke from a friend. He searched for the word "lottery" in his Apple mobile APP store and found a large number of related APPs. Because he had no experience in buying lottery tickets, Mr. Mou downloaded an app marked "official lottery platform" after comparison.
The words "official platform" and the LOGO of Fucai made Mr. Mou feel very relieved. After reading the operation introduction provided on the APP, Mr. Mou began to bet. In just ten days, he invested 120,000 yuan.
Gambling APP set a trap to recharge, you must bet.
The money charged into the APP must be purchased by lottery, and it can only be extracted after winning the prize. Such a rule makes Mr. Mou step by step into the trap. At first, I just wanted to win it back because I lost 8,000 yuan. It was not until I invested more than 100,000 yuan that Mr. Mou became suspicious.
In the screenshot of the conversation between Mr. Mou and APP customer service staff, it was recorded that the customer service staff claimed to be the official lottery platform to admit that they had their own lottery, which made Mr. Mou stupid. When he carefully checked the recharge record on the APP, he found that every recharge went to different accounts, some were convenience stores and some were hardware stores, which had nothing to do with the so-called "official platform of Chongqing Welfare Lottery". When Mr. Mou checked with Chongqing Welfare Lottery Distribution Center, he realized that he had been trapped.
It is difficult for users who have suffered serious losses to defend their rights.
Chongqing Welfare Lottery Distribution Center made it clear that the state prohibits the online sale of lottery tickets. Why did you download an APP named "Chongqing Welfare Lottery Official Platform" in Apple’s app store? Mr. Mou, who suffered losses, began to defend his rights from Apple at the end of April.
Since April 24th, Mr. Mou has repeatedly called Apple’s customer service hotline to reflect his experience. Although Apple provided the corresponding acceptance number for Mr. Mou’s complaint, it never gave a reply.
On April 27, Mr. Mou came to Apple’s office in Pudong, Shanghai, and asked Apple to provide the information of the actual registrant of the APP pretending to be the official platform of Chongqing Welfare Lottery and provide corresponding financial compensation, but the staff refused. Later, Mr. Mou sent an email to Apple’s headquarters in the United States, reflecting the scam he encountered and asking the other party to provide information about the APP involved, but Apple’s reply did not respond to Mr. Mou’s request.
Mr. Mou has been communicating with Apple for more than 50 days in Shanghai, and Apple has never provided him with relevant information about the APP involved. Mr. Mou, who plans to defend his rights through litigation, has no way to provide complete materials to the court. On July 16th, the reporter and Mr. Mou came to the Apple Company at No.391 Yuanshen Road, Pudong District, Shanghai. The staff refused to let the reporter and Mr. Mou in on the grounds of safety, and there was only one way to reflect the problem, that is, to fill in the form, leave a phone number and wait for the reply from Apple.
Online lottery tickets completely prohibit illegal apps from still existing.
Apple refused to provide Mr. Mou with the registration information of APP suspected of gambling and impersonating the official platform on the grounds of user privacy and safety, but Mr. Mou found that many users using Apple mobile phones reported similar lottery scams on some online complaint websites, many of which were cheated by hundreds of thousands, and some were tens of thousands. And how did the APPle App Store, which claimed to be strictly audited, get these illegal apps under the official banner mixed in?
On July 19th, when a reporter typed in "lottery ticket" in the APPle App Store, hundreds of apps appeared. Among the top 30 apps, three were marked with the striking words "official version" on their icons, and four were marked as "official authoritative platforms" in the developer’s name, all of which were marked with five-star full marks.
An APP named "Welfare Lottery" uses a similar shape and color scheme to China Welfare Lottery. The developer’s name reads "2018 Official Authoritative Lottery Platform". After entering the download page, the reporter found that the developer’s name of the platform was marked as "Hubei Zhenxin Lottery Culture Development Co., Ltd.". When the reporter downloaded the APP and opened it, he found that the platform was titled "22 Lottery". In the interface of the APP, there are Chongqing Shichai, Beijing PKS, Hong Kong Mark Six Lottery, etc. Users want to bet on the platform first. Recharge. In the introduction of this APP, the reporter did not find any information authorized by the official platform of welfare lottery.
After logging in to official website, China Welfare Lottery Distribution Management Center, the reporter found that as early as the beginning of April this year, in view of the problem of using the Internet to sell welfare lottery tickets in Jiangsu, Ningxia and other five provinces and regions, China Welfare Lottery Distribution Management Center issued an announcement, clarifying that "welfare lottery institutions at all levels and welfare lottery agents must standardize their sales behavior and must not cooperate with any unit or individual to use the Internet to sell welfare lottery tickets in violation of regulations."
Since China has banned the sale of lottery tickets on the Internet as early as 2015, why can the APP that sells lottery tickets in Apple’s app store become popular and even pretend to be an official platform to attract users? The reporter conducted a survey on a number of Internet companies providing APP platforms in Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places, and found that no one refused to develop lottery-related APPs. As long as they spend money, they can be put on Apple’s app store.
In addition to promising to get through the channel of putting the lottery APP on the APPle App Store, the technician also revealed to reporters the loopholes in Apple’s app review.
Illegal APP borrows vest to escape supervision.
By using the technical means of changing the code keywords in the APP, it can pass the audit of APPle. Such a flaw makes a large number of illegal apps exist in the Apple App Store. Through the investigation, the reporter found that Apple also has serious loopholes in the content supervision after the APP was put on the shelves. An illegal APP can generate multiple apps by grafting flowers and trees, which is also called "casing" in the black industry chain of the Internet.
Network security researchers showed reporters that there are a lot of gray or even black transactions in Internet forums. Some people ask how to shell the APP in Apple’s IOS system, and some are selling the shell code of the APP. And Mr. Mou from Shandong downloaded the "Lottery Recommendation — The official platform has also appeared the phenomenon of casing in use.
With the name of an APP, the name can be changed through background operations. The practice of changing the vest in this way is to escape supervision and illegally collect money.
Although APPle announced the review process of the APP, emphasizing that "APPs involving games, gambling and lottery tickets can only include this function after fully verifying the relevant legal requirements of all countries/regions of the upcoming app", the reporter found through investigation that there were serious review loopholes in the Apple App Store from qualification to content. According to the Regulations on the Management of Mobile Internet Application Information Services issued by the National Network Information Office in 2016, "Mobile Internet application providers should strictly implement the responsibility of information security management, establish and improve the user information security protection mechanism, and protect users’ right to know and choose during installation or use according to law, and respect and protect intellectual property rights." Zhu Wei, one of the drafters of this regulation and deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, said that users’ interests were damaged due to the confusion of platform management, and they should take the initiative to take responsibility to prevent more serious consequences.