{"id":1007640,"date":"2026-05-12T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007640"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:20:12","slug":"millions-of-indians-downloaded-these-28-scam-android-apps-promising-whatsapp-and-call-records-google-takes-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/12\/millions-of-indians-downloaded-these-28-scam-android-apps-promising-whatsapp-and-call-records-google-takes-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Indians downloaded these 28 scam Android apps promising WhatsApp and call records, Google takes action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apps claiming to reveal someone else\u2019s call history may sound tempting on paper, but a new report suggests millions of Android users may have been scammed with promises of revealing details about people who called them. The report by security research firm ESET has revealed that 28 scam Android apps available through the Google Play Store were downloaded more than 7.3 million times and tricked users into paying for fabricated data.<\/p>\n<p>How did 28 Android apps scam users?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apps claiming to reveal someone else\u2019s call history may sound tempting on paper, but a new report suggests millions of Android users may have been scammed with promises of revealing details about people who called them. The report by security research firm ESET has revealed that 28 scam Android apps available through the Google Play Store were downloaded more than 7.3 million times and tricked users into paying for fabricated data. How did 28 Android apps scam users?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007641,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007640\/revisions\/1007641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}