{"id":35528,"date":"2022-11-17T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=35528"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:53:36","slug":"india-fake-kerala-lottery-apps-detected-on-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-fake-kerala-lottery-apps-detected-on-google-play","title":{"rendered":"India: fake Kerala lottery apps detected on Google Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The apps were selling tickets online, despite the fact Kerala only sells paper lottery tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

India.- Cybersecurity researchers have reported that there are fraudulent apps <\/strong>on the Google Play <\/strong>store that use the official logos of Kerala State Lotteries, National Informatics Center and Kerala state to sell lottery tickets online<\/strong>. They warned that more than a million people<\/strong> had already downloaded the Android apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A researcher at CloudSEK<\/strong>, an artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity company, said the developers of the fake apps aimed to take advantage of the popularity of the lottery in the state of Kerala. He claimed their developers used social media accounts with more than 200,000 followers to run fake advertisements impersonating government agencies, including on Telegram groups, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kerala State Lottery Department only sells paper lottery tickets<\/strong>. Online sales are prohibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from the Supreme Court\u2019s precedent on skill-based gambling, there is no federal statute to govern India\u2019s gambling industry, with each state taking its own stance on the issue. A panel set up by prime minister Narendra Modi<\/strong> concluded that India should establish a regulatory body for online skill games<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regulator would classify which online games as based on skill or chance, implement rules to block prohibited formats and enforce stricter gambling regulations. The report recommends that a separate law should be enacted to regulate online gaming as a \u201clong-term measure\u201d<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also:<\/strong> 13 arrested for selling fake lottery tickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The apps were selling tickets online, despite the fact Kerala only sells paper lottery tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Fraudulent applications selling online lottery tickets, despite state prohibition, have been identified on the Google Play store in Kerala, India, impacting over a million users. This incident underscores the significant regulatory challenges within India's fragmented gambling market, prompting recommendations for a federal body to govern online skill games and enforce stricter compliance frameworks.","focusai_entities":"Kerala State Lotteries, National Informatics Center, Kerala state, Google Play store, CloudSEK, Narendra Modi, Supreme Court","focusai_location":"India, Kerala","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on India's iGaming Regulation?","query":"What are the specific implications of this large-scale lottery fraud for the proposed federal online gaming regulatory body in India, particularly concerning its mandate for classifying skill-based games versus chance-based lotteries?"},{"label":"Google Play Store Compliance?","query":"How will Google Play's app review and compliance processes be enhanced or modified in response to this incident, specifically for applications operating within regulated or emerging iGaming markets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-35528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35549,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528\/revisions\/35549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}