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I've said it before and I'll say it again: in-app purchases are the premium SMS scam of the '10s.

Companies making a killing on IAP these days are no different from Jamster mobile club and its kin.

Regulations will catch up soon enough but no doubt by then some other avenue for bilking kids out of their cash will have presented itself by then.



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