{"id":32088,"date":"2020-11-20T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T10:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32088"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:57:32","slug":"fake-uniswap-app-steals-20000-from-a-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/fake-uniswap-app-steals-20000-from-a-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Uniswap app steals $20,000 from a user"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fake Uniswap app in the Google Play store is stealing cryptocurrency from users. One of them has already lost $20,000.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just had a member of ours lose $20k to a fake <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniswapProtocol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UniswapProtocol<\/a> mobile App on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GooglePlay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GooglePlay<\/a> store as it has 100 fake positive reviews so he trusted to input private key backup phrase.<\/p>\n<p>Please retweet this. Please report the App. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udcb3\u26a0\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uY3NQz3pFn\">https:\/\/t.co\/uY3NQz3pFn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PXjmdsvPP3\">pic.twitter.com\/PXjmdsvPP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Saunders \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udd2c (@AlexSaundersAU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexSaundersAU\/status\/1329561975471259649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The affected person was an acquaintance of Nuggets News founder Alex Saunders.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe app has 100 fake positive reviews, so he trusted it and entered the phrase to recover the private key,\u201d wrote Saunders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The latest release of the app was posted on November 10 by a developer named Unidex. It has been installed more than a hundred times. At the same time, Uniswap currently has no official mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>Users who downloaded the app are advised to transfer their cryptocurrency to a new wallet.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, the fake app remained available for download.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, Google Play has repeatedly hosted apps aimed at stealing cryptocurrency. In November 2018, four fake wallets for Neo, Tether and Ethereum were discovered there. The latter also posed as MetaMask.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2019, more than a thousand users downloaded the fake Trezor Mobile Wallet app, masquerading as a popular wallet.<\/p>\n<p>In early March 2020, apps broadcasting Bitcoin and blockchain-industry news began to disappear from Google Play.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fake Uniswap app in the Google Play store is stealing cryptocurrency from users. One of them has already lost $20,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1480,1154,1209,738,1391],"class_list":["post-32088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-apps","tag-crimes","tag-fake-news","tag-google","tag-uniswap-uni"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32090,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088\/revisions\/32090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}