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Stolen and possibly rogue application?

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proc

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Hello all.. so i decided to install a gps tracker for my family, searched for tracker and came across this app, seeing the many positive reviews i installed it and noticed upon launching that the app's label was in fact life360...which was working online with the actual life360.com;
Feeling that something wasn't right i searched for life360 and found this app which is supposed to be the genuine app.

The signin credentials are also working fine on the supposedly genuine app...finding the developer's website on that supposedly rogue app took me to a blank page on tumbler which sent alarm bells ringing about what all could that app have done seeing the permissions such kind of applications have..it was just around an hour that it took me to realize this :(

What should i do?
 
I would start by reporting the fake app immediately. I would also consider contacting the developer of the real app and letting them know.
 
Thanks for the heads up! I'm spending this afternoon (before the Walking Dead marathon starts LOL) looking for new apps. I definitely would have fallen for that ad. Scary!
When I first got my phone I downloaded a bunch of free apps and one of them trashed my phone, slowly killing off it's features and abilities :(. It had to be completely reset and I lost a bunch of stuff. I still don't know which app it was, but I had downloaded some weird ones that I decided not to get again.
I am SO glad I found this forum!!!
Now I'm looking at the app you ended up getting and I'll probably get it too :).
 
Glad that this thread helped you Zarafia. Just goes to show what all is lurking on google play for people to fall for.. this app has apparently had 1000000+ installs which further made me fall for it.
This is the first time i am having such an experience.
 
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