App stores are not to be trust with crypto apps especially wallet and exchanges. i myself have seen so many scam apps in play stores and so many people become victims by downloading them.
Thanks for the alert.

Yeah, it's better to find the official app links from the official websites. Google play is a pool of scam crypto apps and malware.

You can easily tell by the number of reviews even if they upload a fake metamask it will easily get caught if it does not have millions of users they have this 1,013,261 number of users I have not yet seen a fake one so why not post here so we can help report it and take it down.

I didn't have enough sMerits but this is the kind of information people need to be sensitized about. A lot of people have lost their money and cryptos unknowingly.
Towards the end of last year, I created a topic about these app stores being a haven for such fake apps.
It's great that you brought this up.

Here is the topic I also made back then.
Not all crypto apps in App stores are safe

This just goes to show that Google urgently needs some cryptocurrency experts among their staff. This is not the first time they make such mistakes. I remember some time ago they allowed something similar in their search engine results. I think it was a case of a fake electrum wallet. Google should either educate their stuff or stay away from the crypto space entirely. Otherwise they are making damage, people in general trust google and then fall for these types of scams.

Nope. This already happened multiple times before. They don't actually verify their apps - that's why there are so many crappy and shady apps in their store. This is also one of the reasons why I really like iOS. The App Store is pretty decent and hardly you will find a shit or shady app around there.

And the worst of all is that this is not the first time a fake MetaMask app shows on the Play Store. Back in 2018: https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/google-takes-action-as-fake-crypto-apps-caught-on-play-store-by-stefanko/

Ahw so playstore will not able to determine whether that wallet is genuine or not. They should increase their security to make sure that this kind of happening will not happen again.

It is very disappointed in my side, I thought playstore is safe and only trusted apps will be listed there.

We should aware that Google Play Store is bloated with a lot of malware applications. The responsible shouldn't be on Google's team but rather our analytical thinking about it. It is should the norm for cryptocurrencies user to double check and thoroughly verify the authenticity of the application, for more security just download it then verify the PGP keys.

Personally I'm not having problems to spot fake apps on Playstore. It's not that difficult. Main indicators of fake app - small number of downloads and reviews. Another one - strange name of uploader. But for less experienced people it can be more difficult. So, it would be best to official app of wallet, exchange or sth and then click on Google Play icon which is displayed on website - then you will be redirected to official app.
No, they don't need to hire crypto experts to eliminate this problem. It's not only problem with crypto, because you can find various kind of fake apps in all categories of Google Play store. Now everyone can upload app to Play store after paying small fee and it appears on it without strict verification. I'm not fan of Apple, but their App Store is much better than Google Play in terms of security. On App Store all apps have to pass strict verfication proccess before it become available to download. This is why we don't see similar news like in OP about apps uploaded to Apple App Store.

Thank you for giving the information. Fortunately, I don't use metamask so I think I can avoid that malware and I hope that all of us could be still safe. I hope that the apps get delete from Google Play Store, so we don't have to know that the apps were making some people lose their balance because they don't know this alert.