Google playstore has very poor regulations when it comes to every apps uploaded on their platform, that’s why bad actors are always taking advantage of the loopholes. If your really not skeptic about what you download on playstore or appstore for instance you’ll get easily tricked.
It's like the team from the Google Play Store when reviewing an application is not very detailed and in the end the scammer uses it to make the application as if it were official. This incident has often happened and it seems like the team from Playstore does not take it seriously in reviewing applications.