Oh, I so have seen this Khalid type before. They are called "spammers".
The guy has assembled a team of the blackhat-coder type and spammed the AppStore successfully with random crap for months, looking to cash in on the 6-to-9 percent social engineering toll (anything works for this percentage of people if you have a big enough audience). Props to him for acting quickly.
Props to Apple for recognizing spam. Shame on Apple for not labeling this type of app-spamming as spam. It's crawling up the Top-Paid list, it's all over the AppStore's search results, and will bring the AppStore down if it continues (you can't quite install an anti-app-spam filter on your iPhone/iTunes).
Next on the AppStore: Apps that take your C.V. and hand it out to money-laundering types, with catchy descriptions like "find your place within an international team of highly-paid professionals!" and "99% employment success rate!", etc.
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Oh, I so have seen this Khalid type before. They are called "spammers".
The guy has assembled a team of the blackhat-coder type and spammed the AppStore successfully with random crap for months, looking to cash in on the 6-to-9 percent social engineering toll (anything works for this percentage of people if you have a big enough audience). Props to him for acting quickly.
Props to Apple for recognizing spam. Shame on Apple for not labeling this type of app-spamming as spam. It's crawling up the Top-Paid list, it's all over the AppStore's search results, and will bring the AppStore down if it continues (you can't quite install an anti-app-spam filter on your iPhone/iTunes).
Next on the AppStore: Apps that take your C.V. and hand it out to money-laundering types, with catchy descriptions like "find your place within an international team of highly-paid professionals!" and "99% employment success rate!", etc.
Creeping jumping limping Jeesus...