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[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook Are you proud that your @Apple App store lets fraudulent developers rip off people from 3rd world countries of their hard-earned money?!!! You should have refunded me by now!! #AppleisAFraud!!!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook Nobody from @Apple has gotten in touch with me about my refund request until today Mr. Cook?! Is this how you run Apple nowadays?! #AppleSucks

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook How so!? #AppleSucks because you guys still haven’t resolved my Apple Store issue???!!!!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook It’s been 4 days and nobody from @AppleSupport has gotten in touch with me!!! You refuse to refund me my hard-earned money and side with a scam company on the apple store platform!!! #appleSucks

[mimcee @mimcee]

@AppleSupport Why has no one gotten in touch with me about my issue @tim_cook ??! I’ve been tagging you and sending your Apple X account a message but no one has been in touch with me?!!! #AppleSucks now since Steve Job has died!!!!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook Mr. Cook! Your @AppleSupport nor @Apple hasn’t even gotten on touch with me so far about my issue!!! #AppleSucks

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook It would have been, if I actually didn’t get scammed by an app on the @Apple platform Tim, so who do people actually contact for help @AppleSupport

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook Hi! I need help with refunding an app on the Apple platform! You let it scammed me for P 12,990!!! You wouldn’t refund me my money even thought it was an obvious scam!!! @AppleSupport @Apple

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook your company always prides itself as someone which has a safe platform but I was defrauded on the App Store itself! Please help me get my money back! @AppleSupport @Apple you won’t even refund me my money!!!!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook you let scammers on the Apple App platform!!! People like us don’t get help from your supposed chat support! I would have been quite calm if this was just a small amount! But we are talking of thousand!!!! Nobody from @AppleSupport nor @Apple has even checked with me!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook I still haven’t gotten any help from your people Mr. Cook!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook And what about simple folks like me who got scammed by an app from the App Store?!!! Who’s gonna fix my issue? Your reps have twice declined my refund request!!!!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook still no one is responding to me on your X account’s from @Apple !!!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook And what about simple folks like me who got scammed by an app from the App Store?!!! Who’s gonna fix my issue? Your reps have twice declined my refund request!!!!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook still no one is responding to me on your X account’s from @Apple !!!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook I still haven’t gotten any help from your people Mr. Cook!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook you let scammers on the Apple App platform!!! People like us don’t get help from your supposed chat support! I would have been quite calm if this was just a small amount! But we are talking of thousand!!!! Nobody from @AppleSupport nor @Apple has even checked with me!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook your company always prides itself as someone which has a safe platform but I was defrauded on the App Store itself! Please help me get my money back! @AppleSupport @Apple you won’t even refund me my money!!!!

[mimcee @mimcee]

@tim_cook Hi! I need help with refunding an app on the Apple platform! You let it scammed me for P 12,990!!! You wouldn’t refund me my money even thought it was an obvious scam!!! @AppleSupport @Apple