Not recognizing the email address for the gift recipient or remembering having purchased it, [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Over £1,000 was fraudulently taken from a man’s bank account when his iTunes account was compromised this past week. He received an email stating he had purchased an ITunes gift-away giving to someone to use in the online store reported the Register.

Not recognizing the email address for the gift recipient or remembering having purchased it, he reviewed his iTunes account and uncovered fraudulent charges that overdrew his account by £300 or close to $460. The bank and Apple were contacting to inform them that he was not responsible for the charges. Apple’s reply was just an automated message suspending his account while his bank, HSBC re deposited his funds to his account

He was livid with the Apple message. They took so long to reach me and offered me no help, this after being a loyal Apple and iTunes account holder.

Linking your account to iTunes has lead to trouble in the past and he agreed to do so. It may be time for Apple to review their security since it is unknown how his account was hacked. How can Apple have a pseudo-like Paypal and not have the necessary security in place and enough monitoring guidelines?

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Although Apple sells billions of apps and songs to iTunes users on a regular basis, with this many sales it is bound to [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> iTunes store users are finding themselves the target of fraud cases some of which are created by iOS developers in order to boost their overall sales performance and in other cases basic hacking.

Although Apple sells billions of apps and songs to iTunes users on a regular basis, with this many sales it is bound to attract fraudsters as well.  However, new app purchases that have boosted the sales of one App Store developer up by forty points seem highly suspicious.

The category in question appears in books and is a Japanese manga set of titles published by supposed developer Thuat Nguen.  It is very unlikely that 80% of Apples book sales were from these anime book apps given the fact that they were all dumped into the App Store within just a few days and appear to violate property rights.

Of course, the larger concern is that the junk apps are repeatedly being reported by several iTunes users as fraud.  Ratings attached to many of the titles complain about discovering that the purchases were made without their permission on their accounts although there is a rash of positive reviews interspersed among these creating the image that the group behind the fraudulent sales may be attempting to cover their tracks.

Outside of the fact that the book sales are ruining the integrity of the App store charts, but they also are dropping the rank of legitimate titles by developers so that shoppers cannot view them as easily hurting the value of the overall Apple Store to users.

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