Da hell? This is a new one. I just received this in my E-Mail: WTF? I don't know if this is a scam or not but there are certain things that point to the possibility that it is, such as the lack of specificity (what game?), mechanical ignorance (how can you not know you're the one who has to delete it, especially when you knew enough to E-Mail the developer to ask for a refund) and, of course, the fact that I currently have no games on the App Store. I've written music for one game and one app, and while my name does appear in the credits, there's no E-Mail address and neither app links to my (now idle) blog. I'm pretty easy to Google, mind you, so my E-Mail address isn't exactly hard to find (I redacted it here to avoid harvester bots) but since I am explicitly listed as the musician (or somewhat misleadingly, the "audio engineer" in Theme Park Madness) I can't imagine how anyone would mistake me for the developer. Also, it's being sent from a mac.com address, and while that's hardly proof of anything, given the rest of the E-Mail it seems contrived to lend some sort of legitimacy to the writer, as if to say "Hey, I'm a Mac guy, I'm telling you the truth." And then there's the Dutch "Sent from my iPhone" at the bottom for that extra kick of credibility -- given that he'd have to have had me in his contact list or actually searched for, copied and pasted, and then edited the E-Mail address from my blog (I do not direct link, it's obfuscated again to throw off harvesters) in the iPhone E-Mail app, that's just too damn much work when it would have been much easier to do it from a desktop or laptop. Anyone else receive anything like this?
I'm guessing that he just plain sucks at english (but no errors in what he wrote?) and picked a name out at random. Googled it, then found your email. The rest, just with the slimmest odds, might be coincidence. But yeah, definitely fishy.
Scam or not, if someone requests a refund the answer is simple. Developers do not handle sales, have no knowledge of who has purchased an app, and therefore refund requests have to be made to Apple.
Seems like a lot of work to potentially get back a buck or two, unless he cast a wide net and is hoping to get a lot of responses. Or maybe it's just a recon E-Mail to test for active addresses for further spam/scam purposes. True enough -- though there has been two or three cases where developers have refunded out of pocket out of goodwill, so it's not unprecedented.
