Verdict up front: an app called Earn Ethereum tells you in its own description that it does not mine anything and does not earn anything. It is a dashboard for an account you are expected to already have somewhere else. It carries ads and in-app purchases, and it has been installed more than 100,000 times.
ETH Cloud Miner — Earn Ethereum sits on Google Play under the developer name Crypto Cloud Farm. On the day we checked it showed 4.5 stars from 3,920 reviews and 100,000+ downloads, and it was last updated on 8 September 2026. The listing is marked “Contains ads” and “In-app purchases.”
What the app says it does
The title promises earnings. The description withdraws the promise, in plain language, twice:
From the developer’s own store listing
“This app does not mine Ethereum on your device. It is designed only to show information from your existing cloud mining account.” And again: “It is intended purely for displaying public mining data associated with your cloud mining account.”
Read that carefully. The app does not mine. The app does not pay. The app displays numbers relating to an account held with an unnamed third party — an account you must already have before the app does anything at all.
So what is the paid tier buying? The listing does not say.
What users say happens next
The most-endorsed critical review on the listing is from Torsten Bederke, dated 11 September 2025. 61 people marked it helpful. It describes being billed repeatedly for a subscription that was never honoured:
“They don’t honor subscriptions, I got billed multiple times and never received any extension of my basic contract. Followed up with customer service, no answer… submitted documents, no response from either email or app.”
The developer does reply to reviews publicly, directing users to support@cloud1miner.cloud. That address is worth noticing on its own: it does not match the developer name on the listing, and it sits on a .cloud domain rather than any identifiable company.
The pattern behind the app
Crypto Cloud Farm does not publish one app. The Play Store’s own “More by this developer” panel lists several, including USDT Mining, Crypto USDT Miner at 500,000+ installs, Ethereum Mining, ETH Miner at 100,000+, and Giga Miner, Bitcoin Mining. The oldest of them dates to August 2023 and they are still being updated this month.
That matters because a single odd listing can be carelessness. A portfolio of them, maintained for three years across several currencies, is a business model.
What to check before you install any “cloud mining” app
- Does the description contradict the title? If the app is called Earn anything and the text says it does not mine or pay, believe the text.
- Who holds the mining account? If the app only “displays” data from a third party, find out who that third party is before money moves.
- Where does the support email point? A generic domain unconnected to the developer name is a sign there is no company behind it.
- Read the one-star reviews, not the average. A 4.5-star average sits on top of a review describing repeated billing with nothing delivered.
Cloud mining is not automatically fraudulent. But an app that takes subscription payments while stating it neither mines nor earns has told you what it is. The only thing being generated is revenue, and it is not flowing toward you.
If you have already paid
Cancel the subscription through Google Play, not through the app, and request a refund from Google. Keep the receipts and the review thread. If money left your account and nothing came back, report it to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center at IC3.gov — there is never a fee for that, and no legitimate service asks you to pay before your money is returned.
