[benoau]

Outside Play, on YouTube or via Google Ads for many of them. Likewise for Meta ads.

[fluidcruft]

The scams that are happening in the rest of world are calls posing as bank support about urgent security issues and telling people to install apps to protect their accounts.

[happymellon]

All the scams are for apps that are already in the Play and App store.

[goku12]

Absolutely! Never had one problem with apps on FDroid. Not even when tbe Simple Mobile Tools suite was sold to a shady company without a heads up to its users. And that safety isn't an accident.

[fluidcruft]

I don't disagree about that.

[happymellon]

Ah, sorry there seem to be a lot of people that seem to think that side loading is an issue to anything other than Apple and Googles profit margins.

They let so much malware in their stores already.

[direwolf20]

In the USA they tell you to install AnyDesk and remote access your computer. Or they just ask for your password. Or forge a check.

[fluidcruft]

Does not sound like an Android problem. Maybe ask Microsoft or Apple about that.