Alphabet’s Google is suing two alleged cryptocurrency scammers, claiming that they used the company’s Play Store to offer fraudulent crytpo trading apps and investment platforms that took users’ money as part of a so-called “pig butchering” scam, The Verge’s Lauren Feiner reports. The supposed scammers, who are based in China and Hong Kong, allegedly uploaded 87 different phony apps to enable their scams, luring in over 100,000 individuals who downloaded them, the author notes.
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