How to report an app for auto-dialling premium lines!

Hi,
I was wondering how I can report an app (or series of apps) to Apple.
To put this in conext, we had been trying to track down a number of premium rate numbers (at £1.53 / $2.30 a pop) appearing on my wifes bill. Eventually we have tracked it down to a series of apps from "eFlashCards, LLC" in the App Store. This morning, we actually saw our son use the "Baby Flash Cards" app and it automatically dial the number - see below. The phone was not signed into iTunes at the time.
These learning apps are designed for toddlers, and it seems that they have been designed badly on purpose (I'm a software developer so I can tell how these things work!) to encourage the toddler to press a banner with pictures of cartoon animals on. When this is pressed the app automatically dials and connects to a premium rate line, without any kind of confirmation or second-level authorisation.
I tried contacting eFlashApps directly to inform them that they may not be aware of this issue (in case they are using an advertising plug-in in their code) which seems to have occured since they updated their apps at the beginning of March, as we vet all apps when first installed and this "feature" was not there originally. They did not reply, and when I posted a message on their facebook wall to let them know, they deleted my comment and did not contact me.
We are also now contacting our line rental provider to inform them too, but I can't see anywhere suitable other than via the "Reviews" section of the app, and if you check iTunes you'll see other people reporting the same thing, but the app is still there.
Any other suggestions please? Although we've now removed the app I'd like to ensure other parents do not fall for this, and in my opinion this is much worse than the recent "in-app purchase" problems reported in the media.
Thanks.

You should definitely contact Apple's iTunes Store team: http://www.apple.com/au/support/itunes/contact/.

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