No this isn't a joke, sadly. Canonical once again have an issue with scam apps appearing on the Snap Store, which is becoming a repeating problem.
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Canonical once again have an issue with scam apps appearing on the Snap Store, which is becoming a repeating problem.

    After the last issue, Canonical seemed to be slowly moving on the subject, with discussions being opened on their Discourse forum to chat about implementing more checks.

    Alan Pope has a great blog post about the issue, talking about how another ten scam crypto wallet apps appeared from “digisafe00000”.

    You know, if there was proper human review here, someone might have actually thought "hey this is a bit odd, maybe I should do a little digging first?

    Pope dives into one of the apps in the blog post, noting the create an account function (obviously) doesn’t work, since they just want you to “log in” with your current wallet details so they can poach it.

    As Pope says “It’s trivially easy to publish scammy applications like this in the Canonical Snap Store, and for them to go unnoticed.”

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