Warning to millions of parents – these fake Pokémon games are trying to scam your kids

A NEW wave of advertisements on YouTube are promoting predatory free-to-play mobile games.

Made to look like official Pokemon games, these fakes contain in-app purchases.

Using ‘dark patterns’ that block progress for non-paying players, these games use popular Pokemon characters to lure kids in.

Worse still is the number of YouTube adverts that are promoting these games, which are illegal due to copyright law.

While looking at popular Pokemon YouTubers, we saw two adverts that used official Pokemon art to promote their games.