Fake streaming apps on iOS swindle two million users

Apple's app store has a new headache; fake movie streaming apps that show users pirated films, and ask them to spend money.

App developer Kosta Eleftheriou made the revelation after he discovered a number of apps on the store that pretend to be legitimate services to lure people in.

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According to Eleftheriou, these apps have already amassed two million downloads worldwide and generated a lot of revenue. These apps have both paid and free versions, which of course means there are going to be a lot of intrusive ads. These ads are meant to drive users to the premium monthly subscriptions, which are processed through Apple's payments service.

Not only are these apps illegal, Apple seems to do nothing about them until called out.
In a separate tweet, Eleftheriou acknowledged that Apple took the app down thirty minutes after the tweet was live. But this is just one app among countless others.