Meta made a big move against Twitter and the text-based social media platform on July 5 Wires published. While the platform managed to reach millions of active users in its early days, it lost momentum in the following days.

While the whole world is focused on the competition between Twitter and Threads, this capability has become the new tool of the bad guys. Fake apps called “Threads” have been uploaded to app stores. If it’s about one of them expected development it happened.

Apple has removed the fake Threads app from the App Store:

“Topics for InstaThe sanction against one of the bogus applications named ‘was eventually applied. According to data from Sensor Tower so far Downloaded by over 300,000 people application, albeit a little late Removed from the App Store.

The bogus application in question was specifically aimed at European users. Many European users, unaware that Threads has not yet been released in Europe, downloaded the app and thought it was real or an alternative.

With these downloads, the app has become one of the top downloads on the App Store in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and several other European countries. rose to first place. In addition to removing the app, Apple also removed all of the developer’s other apps from the store, denying the developer access to the App Store.

The fake app removed from the App Store bears no resemblance to Threads or any other social media platform, it wasn’t even a platform. A bot is integrated into the application that generates post texts.