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Scammers, using apps, steal money brazenly from owners of the iPhone Scammers have found a new way to deceive the l & # 39; user by spending small amounts for unnecessary services. The scheme requires the use of TouchID to mislead users when shopping in apps. The amount of purchases sometimes reaches $ 99.99, and that's a lot of money that you do not really want to divorce. Two applications using the application of this fraudulent method in the App Store: Calories Tracker and Fitness Balance were discovered. The principle of manipulation is quite simple: In both cases, applications ask users to hold their finger on the home button of their iPhone to "scan" their fingerprints for health data. During the "scan", the application launches an integrated purchase, which is then authenticated with TouchID and ends even before the user understands what is happening. Thus, hackers have received funds from thousands of users who can never return hundreds of dollars. Both programs have already been removed from the App Store. According to Sensor Tower, the tactics of intruders have proved extremely effective. The Calories Tracker app drew $ 60,000 in November and $ 10,000 in fitness balance