{"id":219556,"date":"2025-08-07T04:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/fake-vpn-and-spam-blocker-apps-tied-to-vextrio-used-in-ad-fraud-subscription-scams"},"modified":"2025-08-07T04:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:24:53","slug":"fake-vpn-and-spam-blocker-apps-tied-to-vextrio-used-in-ad-fraud-subscription-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/fake-vpn-and-spam-blocker-apps-tied-to-vextrio-used-in-ad-fraud-subscription-scams","title":{"rendered":"Fake VPN and Spam Blocker Apps Tied to VexTrio Used in Ad Fraud, Subscription Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fake-vpn-and-spam-blocker-apps-tied-to-vextrio-used-in-sad-fraud-subscription-scams.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fake apps from VexTrio on Apple and Google stores mislead users, steal data, and charge hidden fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake apps from VexTrio on Apple and Google stores mislead users, steal data, and charge hidden fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}