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Angry Birds market under threat

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Angry Birds quite an old and most popular application of Android. But its time to alert all the Angry birds lover that fake apps that sent premium rate text messages have corrupted around 1400 UK based android smart-phones. When the user opens any of these fake applications it cost them £15 and the total cost of this fraud is approximately £27,850.

Its main target has beenUKbut rather thanUK17 other countries have also been affected by the scam.UK’s premium phone regulator PhonePayPlus prevented the money to be paid to the scammers. Because of the scam A1 Agregator has been fined £50,000 and has been banned for launching any similar services by PhonePayPlus as it was involved in the payment mechanism used to perform the scam. Also the company has been asked to pay back money taken from the users.

Now the users need to be more particular for the SMS services and the effects its going to have on the users. A1 Agregator now needs to be more attentive as after this scam the reputation of the company is completely at stake.

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