Nobody should buy a will with the pre -installed app, and the problem is not the money. It is in fact the dream of a hacker to sell to someone a phone that you know they will use all day without first reset it. There may be anything loaded on these devices, also viruses and malware to remove money and information.
Tiktok’s fate in the United States is not yet clear, but there are already those who carry out on the trying to exploit the possible ban. And in fact they were put on sale at inflated prices smartphones and tablets with theTiktok app pre -installed. On eBay, Facebook Marketplace and Etsy the devices have appeared, some cost to cost 50,000 dollars.
Just do a search on the online market to find iPhone, iPads and Android devices with the Tiktok app for sale at similar prices. It is unlikely that users spend exorbitant figures for Buy the devicesmany have already sold smartphones but at lower prices, in most cases they have been bought at the standard market price, based on the model.
However, there are those who are obstinate and want to try their luck using the possible ban. An eBay seller, who spoke to the BBC, has a Samsung Galaxy Note9 For sale. It is an old model, at the moment it costs around $ 250, but with the installed Tiktok app, the seller asks for 50,000 dollars. The price is negotiable, he explains, “but I will not go down below 15,000”. So far, he has not received offers.
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What the Flappy Bird case teaches us
It is not the first time that something like this happens. Just think At the Flappy Bird case. The famous mobile game was launched in 2013, the developer Dong Nguyen He would have earned about $ 50,000 a day, then Flappy Bird was withdrawn by the digital stores. At that point, smartphones arrived with the pre -installed game The same script as Tiktok.
However, smartphones were not simple devices with Flappy Bird, but Trojan horses used by hackers to distribute infected phones with malware and viruses. They were used to subtract money or information from users, with a spyware it is in fact possible to access All data saved on a deviceincluding encrypted conversations.
Because it is risky to buy a phone with a pre -installed app
“It is the dream of a hacker to sell to someone a phone that you know they will use all day without first reset it. It may be there anything loaded on these devices“, he explained Ryan Mcgrady, IT at the University of Massachusetts in the United States. “If people were willing to take risks for Flappy Bird, you can bet that they will do the same and no more to be able to continue using Tiktok”.
“One might think ‘this is only an app’, but people become attached to online services and they act out of desperation When suddenly they are taken away, “added McGrady.” And where there is desperation, you are sure to find criminals who take advantage of it. “
