A fake app sneaks up to the top of the app store

The fake app "MyEtherWallet" reaches third place in the finance apps category on the Apple App Store for iOS devices.

False, but among the first places

MyEtherWallet.com's unofficial iOS app climbed positions over the past weekend, reaching third place in the finance category in Apple's mobile app store after just a week in it. MyEtherWallet.com is a popular service created for the storage of cryptocurrencies, however, it does not have an official application for iOS, so it was the company itself that published a message on the social network Twitter warning users not to leave cheat by the iOS application "MyEtherWallet", and asked Apple to remove the application from the App Store.

The fake app "MyEtherWallet" mentions Nam Le as its developer, who owns two other iOS apps, "Panda Warrior: Kung Fu Awesomeness" and "Mr. Beard: Icehole Fishermans ”, as well as an application for the Apple Watch called“ Wrist Count ”.

MyEtherWallet is priced at $ 4.99 and according to the app tab in the app store, it allows users to anonymously manage their ethereum wallets, create offline wallets and store keys securely on their iPhone.

Against this, as the real company clarifies, MyEtherWallet.com is a "free, open source, client-side interface to generate Ethereum wallets and more", so the fake app price of $ 4.99 raises Legal issues plus obvious questions about how the App Store verification process may have passed.

According to the Apptopia tracking service, during its first week in the App Store "MyEtherEallet" it would have been downloaded around 3, 000 times.