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Fake malware may be even more common on mobile devices than on laptops and other computers. For various technical reasons, it is harder to hack mobile devices, so many criminals go for the “low hanging fruit” and just pretend to have compromised devices in order to get would-be victims to pay up. There are even flavors of “mobile device ransomware” that display ransomware-type demands without ever having encrypted anything on the mobile device.