“The @AppStore app pretends to be a silly performer game for children…but if I set my VPN to Turkey and relaunch it becomes an online casino that doesn’t even use Apple’s IAP,” tweeted Eleftheriou.
The app is no longer available on the app store, but it has an online wheel to spin and gamble once you take off its simple monkey-themed platforming game facade. You’re able to “bet” money with their different payment options including Visa, Mastercard, Papara, Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum., the app’s developer ‘Colin Malachi’ also created a similar “gambling app hiding behind a game app” called “Magical Forest – Puzzle”. The app is also no longer available on the App Store.
Kids can potentially download apps like these without knowing what they actually are, and could even accidentally gamble with their parents’ money. Something similar happened to a kid who spent