An obvious scam Android app has been installed over 1 million times in under a month

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mWJSa95Isr8fwoyd5n.Csw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/android-robot-frankenstein.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/obvious-scam-android-app-installed-over-1-million-193927872.html)People, you really ought to read an app’s permissions before you download-it. Reddit’s Android community has flagged an obvious scam app called Subway Train Game in the Google Play store that has been installed-more than 1 million times in less than a month.- What makes this game such an obvious scam? Start with the excessive permissions it requests — a game-that purportedly is centered on-running through subway tunnels for some reason needs to have access to your device’s microphone to record audio, to your device’s camera to snap pictures and to know your precise location through GPS. What’s more, as Redditor-Androidclean points out, the game violates Google’s in-app ad policy by having banner ads on both the top and bottom



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