Random apps appearing in "My Orders" that I didn't download

[negasonic]

Greetings folks. I recently began encountering this issue, and I can't quite seem to figure out the problem.

A few days ago, I was looking through the entire list of android apps I had downloaded, and noticed some irregularities. Specifically, a number of apps that I knew for certain I had never added. All were free, and none appeared to have self-installed, fortunately. Has anyone else encountered this problem, or know what the cause might be? There are a couple that are from the same developer, but I can't see much more of a pattern. I haven't been doing anything funky recently, or gone to any suspect sites on my phone or tablet. My tablet came pre-installed with MacAfee, and a scan came up empty. I'm kind of at a loss, and any insights/help would be appreciated.

Here are the apps that randomly appeared, with the dates they appeared, their developers, and a link to their page on Google's Play Store:

App Name	Developer	Date supposedly downloaded	Link
Photo Maker	KimberyDeiss	December 18, 2012	Play Store link
Checkers	holirewer	December 20, 2012	Play Store link
Led flashlight Free	Nazarret	December 22, 2012	Play Store link
Great slot machines	Great Apps Ltd	December 22, 2012	Play Store link
Jumping ass	tonimiliwer	December 24, 2012	Play Store link
Talking Mouse ( free )	NewWaveAppz	December 25, 2012	Play Store link
Talking Alien from Mars	Moarbile Family	December 27, 2012	Play Store link
Talking Brian the Zombie	Michail	December 27, 2012	Play Store link
Spider solitaire	holirewer	December 28, 2012	Play Store link
Magic ball	wingonewin	December 28, 2012	Play Store link
Анекдоты	frontmatres	January 2, 2013	Play Store link
Talking Pinkdog the Moarnster	Michail	January 3, 2013	Play Store link

 

[Paul627g]

Hello

I would like to put the blame on a rouge app or something that caused this but I have never heard of this. Is it possible someone else got a hold of your device/tablet and downloaded these?

 

[.nuke]

same "problem", same apps suddenely appeared, GP support suggested to change password - that helps, but refused to tell from where are this apps appeared

 

[negasonic]

An update: I turned on 2-step verification and changed my password, and no new apps have appeared since. That's not to say that doing so fixed whatever the problem may have been, but for right now this isn't happening any more. I'll update again if it starts to happen again.

To clarify, in response to Paul's question: I knew exactly where my devices were during the time period when this was happening and when each app was supposedly downloaded. I also checked to see whether there was any weird activity for which Google hadn't notified me (as they did for my mom just yesterday), and the only activity was either from my IP or whatever my phone's IP happened to be at the time.

 

[Jo Ellen McClendon]

I had two appear on my phone, I know I didn't down load them. When I opened them to look, it took me to playstore, where the download this app was displayed. So, it actually wasn't on my phone, I guess, but how did the icons get in my phone? (sorry, not much technical knowledge)