Called ID App Truecaller Pushes Software Fix After Covertly Signing Up Indians To Its Payments Service (techcrunch.com) 18
Truecaller, a service that helps users screen robocalls, has rolled out an update to its app in India, its largest market, after a previous software release covertly signed up an unspecified number of users to its payments service. From a report: A number of users in India began to complain late Monday that Truecaller, which has amassed over 100 million daily users in the country, had registered them to its payments service without their consent. In a statement to TechCrunch, Truecaller acknowledged the error and said a bug in the previous software update caused the issue. The bug led the app to quietly send a text message to a bank to verify their account -- which is part of the procedure to sign up to the payments service.
Testing is hard (Score:2)
Update: The company said it will deregister every user who was inadvertently added to Truecaller Pay.
Still, not a big confidence inspiring app.
Oops, we got caught... (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course this was the designed functionality (Score:1)
Oh come on! This was done on purpose. Quietly sign them up for payments and take maybe (the equivalent of) a dollar or maybe a few cents -- something so small you really wouldn't notice it in your monthly bank statement. With over 100 million users, those few cents every month or two would add up to something significant. One penny a month from 100 million users would be USD $1 million. Five cents a month would be USD $5 million. Repeat this EVERY MONTH and your company is all set with USD $60 million in a
Re: (Score:1)
Have you ever worked with Indian Dev's? I believe them.
Pissing off the worldâ(TM)s largest mobile ma (Score:2)
Too many connections (Score:2)
Fire up a network analyzer, start up Truecaller, and view all the new connections... oh dear, what are they doing? Good bye, Truecaller.