Apple gets serious by removing 374 million fraudulent accounts from its store

Everything that Apple has achieved in recent years in its application store, and that has been highlighted in the latest fraud prevention analysis report.

The App Store allows us to download all kinds of programs on our iOS devices, and unlike the Android store, the truth is that much less malware sneaks in.

Now Apple has made us reach the fourth annual fraud prevention analysis report of their app store, and which details all those actions they have taken against cases of account fraud, fake app reviews and payment fraud.

Manzana deleted around 374 million customer accounts over App Store fraud issues last yearthey also canceled more than 118,000 developer accounts and blocked the creation of more than 91,000 fraudulent developer accounts.

They prevented the creation of 153 million fraudulent customer accounts, a series of accounts that are often created by bots intended to send spam or manipulate ratings and reviews.

Regarding the economic amount of fraudulent transactions that have been avoided, They say they managed to prevent a combined total of more than $7 billion in fraudulent transactions from 2020 to 2023.

In that same period, they blocked more than 3.3 million accounts from making fraudulent transactions and more than 14 million stolen credit cards.

Apple’s review process in its store

Apple currently uses more than 500 experts who review more than 130,000 applications per week, a review process that combines human review, but also artificial intelligence tools.

The type of applications that are ejected from the App Store They are those that do not comply with their nature such as hiding fraudulent operation.

Those in Cupertino removed almost 152 million fake ratings and reviews of the 1.1 billion they processed last year.