Scam ‘Updates for Samsung’ app pulled from the Google Play Store

Last week, a report from the CSIS Security Group pointed ZDNet (and the rest of us) to a very shady app on the Google Play Store called “Updates for Samsung.” It offered to provide system-level Android updates to phones — and, in fact, it did redistribute Samsung’s software, though it was essentially a scam to get you to pay money for said updates.
Today, after we inquired, Google told The Verge that the app violated its policies and has been “suspended.” It i