More than 60 apps passed Apple App Store review while hiding an online gambling platform behind weather icons, maps, and travel games. The front end behaved correctly for reviewers, then switched to a betting UI the moment a Brazilian IP address connected.
As if that weren’t enough, the operators published a playbook on GitHub explaining how to vibecode these apps using a Cursor agent, making the operation look like the work of dozens of independent developers.
But it gets better: Apple’s “You Might Also Like” recommendation engine clustered these apps together and even surfaced them during discovery, grouping scam apps as if they were a genre.
What a massive L for the Apple review team.