[trhway]

wreck? Such scams is effectively similar to shoplifting, CC fraud or just an additional tax/tariff - i.e. it increases the friction and expenses in the system and the most of the burden to cover it ultimately falls upon the weakest participant in the system - usually the consumer.

[pavel_lishin]

The system is shitting into our well, and you're complaining about someone stealing their toilet paper.

[newguy1234]

The difference is that these apps were offered as stuff like "play games, earn rewards." "watch videos, earn rewards" etc. so I don't know how it could even be remotely related to shoplifting or cc fraud...where those are so obvious.

[trhway]

>"play games, earn rewards." "watch videos, earn rewards"

"pay money, take the bagel". Violating such a contract by intentionally and knowingly skipping or falsifying the delivery of your part of the exchange looks to me like a fraud [IANAL].

[newguy1234]

The games had "auto advance" modes built directly in to them.