Hi,
Recently one of my app got Hijacked by some Chinese people…
you can read full story here … http://forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com/advertising-networks/19510-some-chinese-company-cheating-our-unity-game.html
I found out his admob , mobilecore and chart boost Id’s is there any one who can help us tracking down those people ?? Anyone from mobile core , chart boost representatives ??
His ID’s : (Admob) ca-app-pub-8465638697731930/6595376403 ,ca-app-pub-8465638697731930/5118643209
MobileCore ID : 8RK0JT6MEE0WYBKQ75Y431Y57FDW2
ChartBoost Id : ab94ab4207b593c3b6ea326a4bd17821b14f535b , “54b22cbdc909a64cec9b69dc”;
Please Help us to track down those people.
Original App : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.four.lanesurfer
HijackedApp : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kid.skav1
Thanks
Maybe firstly report game to Google Play and when Google will ban this publisher’s application, ad networks will have a proof to pull out the consequences (ban account and keep revenue). Personally I trust you and this is really annoying what they do, but this is business and for now this are only words. On Google Play are only dates when app was updated. So, there is no any method to know which app was first on Google Play (version names are not a proof - anyone can make version name 0.0.1 and version code 1 or 999.0.0 and 2.4.5). I doubt that ad networks will now give to you personal data of their client. But I think that they should when fake app will be banned on Google Play.
Maybe contact directly with ad networks, describe situation and ask that they can give to you all data about this publisher. Send them also links and screens (from Google Play pages) to your and fake app, and ask that they will give to you publisher’s data if he will be banned on Google Play.
And what exactly you want to do with them when you “track them down”?..
Report them to Google Play and wait till its taken out, I think its all you can do.
By the way, how the hell did they manage so many downloads with the icon thats far worse than yours, no video and screenshots that actually are just screenshots… Paid advertising / cross promotion?
Those people are so smart they have crosspromotion , push ads every thing …we game a unsiged game they wrapped all those to the game and gave initially…
What we want to do is we want to send a legal notice to the address … if we find the address… If we report Google we don’t know how Google behave what if it is takeout our apps also for some reason… We just scared …
A legal notice to China? Do you really think it will work??
Other than contacting Google Play support, I don’ think you will get very far with this. After all, your game is ripping off the original Subway Surfers game, down to the sound that it makes of the collection of the coins. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t through stones.
@Gsurface i was thinking the same thing 