Playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and GTA 6 directly on your mobile phone today sounds too good to be true. Anyone who gets involved will quickly become a victim of a nasty scam.
What kind of apps are these? Apps from popular games like Baldur’s Gate 3 or GTA 6 keep appearing in the App Store. They promise that you can easily play the popular games on your cell phone.
To make the whole thing believable, many of the fake apps use screenshots from the real games to which they add mobile control elements using image editing programs. But instead of gaining innovative cloud solutions from the original developers, you will lose a lot of money if you fall for the fake apps.
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How does the scam work? The fake apps use similar or the same names as the famous titles that many gamers would like to play on their smartphones. Baldur’s Gate 3 will then become “Baldur’s Gate 3 – Mobile Turuk” and GTA 6 will become “GTA 6 Mobile / Gangster Game”.
Depending on which fake developer is behind the game, you can expect either simply different games or real scams that can cost you a lot of money. One of them can be easily explained using the example of “Baldur’s Gate 3 – Mobile Turuk”.
Here you can see a screenshot of the scam app’s product page:
Instead of the best game of 2023, all you can expect is the title screen asking you to buy the “full version”. This is what a review of the game reveals (via apple.com). The app costs around €30 per month. If you buy the “full version”, you won’t get anything. There is no game behind the main menu and certainly not BG 3.
Instead, you have now taken out a subscription that will cost you €30 every month until the game is removed from the App Store or you cancel or request a refund. If you don’t know how to do this, you can lose hundreds of euros a year this way.
Is the scam only available in the App Store? No, the scam is available on all platforms that have games. The games that are particularly affected are those that are currently very popular and that fake developers hope to generate purchases.
Both Apple and the other platform providers regularly take action against fake apps. However, developers always manage to release apps that trick you into thinking they are the mobile version of your favorite game.
In addition to GTA 6 and Baldur’s Gate 3, Palworld and Helldivers 2 also faced the same problem. Here, however, the fraudsters did not sell a mobile version, but rather a deceptively real copy on Steam: Fraudsters sold false versions of Palworld and Helldivers 2 – this is what you have to pay attention to