Bogus App Pranks Would-Be Pirates, Notifies Friends and Family of Errant Ways
It isn’t quite April just yet, but someone out there with a sense of humor and a knack for vigilante justice has pulled off quite the epic prank. A bogus version of Walk and Text, a paid app in the Android Market, has been uploaded to various pirated android app hosting sites around the web, hacking the handset of whoever installs it and launching a digital smear campaign.
If you were to download this version of Walk and Text thinking you just scored the app for free, you would be pretty annoyed to find what you actually get is a program that sends an embarrassing text to all the contacts in your phonebook reading,
“Hey,just downlaoded a pirated App off the Internet, Walk and Text for Android. Im stupid and cheap,it costed only 1 buck.Don’t steal like I did!”
Lulz ensue for all except the person who installed the app. They are greeted with the following message:
Application Not Licensed
We really hope you learned something from this. Check your phone bill;) Oh and dont forget to buy the App from the Market.
Though the intention of the app is to act mostly as a prank, it does collect and send out personal info including your name, phone number, IMEI, and more. In other words, you don’t want to run into this one. Hopefully those who have been taken by the prank have indeed learned their lesson. Support your Android developers, people! It’s the only way to keep quality content flowing into the market.
[via AndroidPolice]