Help with 4.3 Spam Rejection

I am in the middle of trying to get an app approved for beta release and the back and forth with the App Store reviewers has been incredibly frustrating and concerning.

On Tuesday, I created an app record for my app but quickly realized I made it under the wrong account- I'm working for a company that has a few brands under it's umbrella, and I was under the wrong account when I created the app record.

Rather than wait several days to get Apple's approval to transfer app ownership, I decided to delete that app record and create a new one under the proper account. Worst mistake of my life.

Now, Apple is insisting that the new app record is spam despite my clarification that I own the other app record and that it was deleted before the new one was created. I have no choice but to believe that somebody else is using our branding and asset somewhere in the App Store that I can't see.

Does anybody know how I can resolve this? It should have never taken me the whole week to make an app available on test flight and my stakeholders are not pleased, and I have no clear path towards resolution that will allow me to use the proper branding with the proper company account.

App review refuse to offer any solutions, I am stuck with a brand name that I can't use because it's associated with an app I already deleted.

Updating my own question with the resolution: I put in a ticket for suspected fraud and my app was approved for test flight distribution with no word from Apple. Odd but I'm just happy that I can move forward with my Beta test!

How did it work for you? Can we connect?

I’m currently facing a very similar situation as well.

I initially created the app record under the wrong developer account by mistake because our company manages multiple brands/accounts. After realizing the issue, I deleted/canceled the original app record and recreated it under the correct company account.

Since then, App Review has been treating the new submission as a possible duplicate/spam app, even though the original record belonged to us and is no longer active. It seems Apple’s internal systems may still retain references to the deleted app metadata/assets for some time.

My app is also still under review discussion and I’m currently waiting for the issue to be resolved through App Review communication.

So you’re definitely not alone in this situation. Hopefully Apple can manually verify the account history and clear the duplicate/spam flag for both of our cases.

Help with 4.3 Spam Rejection
 
 
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