# Professor Anindya Ghose provides advice on how to avoid fake mobile shopping apps

1 Faculty News November 22, 2017 ![U.S. News and World Report logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030501.jpg?itok=1EF-s0wb)>

Excerpt from [US News & World Report](https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/spending/articles/2017-11-22/how-to-avoid-fake-shopping-apps-this-holiday-season) -- "'Even if they're not using credit card information, \[imitating a popular app\] makes the app a suitable publisher for viewing different kinds of display ads or banner ads,' explains [Anindya Ghose](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anindya-ghose), the Heinz Riehl chair professor of business at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business."

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