Surge of downloads from China - no active devices

I have 2 apps (under 2 seperate vendor IDs) that have suddenly received a huge surge of downloads from China and Japan. When you filter the China/Japan downloads for "active devices" you get 0 (out of 3000 downloads). When you overlay the China/Japan download results for both products and look at downloads day-to-day, the pattern of downloads (the peaks and valleys) is earily identical. When you do the same analysis for the US/canada this correlation goes away. The 2 apps are not of interest to users outside the US, as it is a bluetooth control app for a piece of hardware only available in the US. The fact that there are 'no active devices" in China combined with the surge and correlation of the downloads between the 2 products leads me to believe the app is not being downloaded by individuals.


Has anyone had any experiences with a sudden surge of downloads from China/Japan that show up as "non-active" devices in App Analytics?

Talked to several app developers and everyone is experiencing the same issue with their apps in the app store. Apps which are totally useless for someone living in China too. And not one active Session from China. It started in July. This is systematic and not just by coincident. Probably some app store crawling bot in china is building their own app store.. Has anyone filed a bug for the analytics tool?

I had the same strange spike since 17 Aug until 29 Sep but no active session I got.

Ive had the same aug 17 to sep 29 spike too

Surge of downloads from China - no active devices
 
 
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