Fake Loan Apps: In this age of Internet, many people completely trust every information they get on Google. Cyber criminals take advantage of this thing. In the last few years, it has become easy to cheat people and cheat people of lakhs and crores of rupees by using the internet and Google’s platforms. Google has taken a big step to curb such frauds. Google has deleted more than 2200 fake apps from the Play Store.
Ban on fake loan apps
Cyber criminals have made Google Play Store such a den through which they can easily cheat people. Common people trust the apps available on Google Play Store and download them on their phones, and then the people making fake apps start trying to defraud the users through phone data or other means.
However, let us tell you that this is not the first time that Google has removed fake apps from the Play Store. Google has been doing this from time to time before, but this time Google has deleted more than 2200 apps to curb fraud with people.
More than 2200 apps were deleted
According to a latest report, Google has deleted a total of 2200 fake loan apps from the Google Play Store between September 2022 and August 2023. There were many fake loan apps on Google’s Play Store. By trusting these apps, users were subjected to a lot of fraud and mental torture. According to reports, Google has taken this step following the instructions of the government.
In fact, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad, while answering the questions asked in Parliament, informed that the government is working with RBI to curb fake loan apps. According to the report of the IT Ministry of India, Google had reviewed about 4000 apps for Play Store between April 2021 and July 2022, after which it was decided to remove 2200 apps.