There are two other ersatz Pokemon GO apps on Google Play – Guide & Cheats for Pokemon Go, which has, we’d admit, an attractive, enticing title, and Install Pokemongo, which from the one-word game title alone, sounds dodgy from the get-go. The app appears as PI network after the players download it on their Android phones.
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Chinese users can not get access to the game from the app stores.
It’s not the first incident where malicious apps have been circulated in the name of the famous Pokemon Go game.
A “Pidgey” Pokemon is seen on the screen of the Pokemon Go mobile app, Nintendo’s new scavenger hunt game which utilizes geo-positioning, in a photo illustration taken in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 11, 2016.
A team of researchers at software security firm ESET have warned that fake versions of the game are connecting to porn sites, freezing phones, and demanding ransoms for the removal of spurious viruses.
Pokemon GO is still go go going across the world.
The game uses AR (augmented reality) technology to superimpose an adorable monster into a real world setting when a player looks at the scene through his or her smartphone camera. However, the company later denied the allegation and said that it only sought basic profile permission from the user. For the users unlucky enough to actually download it, a Pokemon GO themed lockscreen replaced their normal one immediately upon app launch, and overlaid all system windows, keeping users from shutting down.
It has nearly doubled since the game was released in just a handful of countries, including the United Kingdom, the US, New Zealand and Australia.
And please, for the last time, try to play the game as fairly as possible.
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Nintendo has created Pokemon Go in partnership with Niantic and Pokemon Company. The message also said Niantic was “working on a fix” and thanked players for being patient. Campaigning is being done by the Clinton camp at such PokeStops and gyms, as a large number of users tend to drift towards these locations in search of more items and rare pokemon.
