So my cousin was here and saw a grocery receipt on the table and asked if I was using it and if he could take a picture of it, I was like what, why?
So, there is this app that pays you some cents for receipt pictures and supposedly it pays you if it finds items that have cashback… shit sounds sketchy as fuck, I saw that on their app they sell credit cards and you can invest in some crap, but what I really found disturbing is this thing about them paying you to send them all your receipts… what the fuck are they doing with that info lol
Crazy stuff, but I’m completely out of touch with cellphone things, is this crap normal??? I was quite shocked by it, and checking the company online, Méliuz, I just see stuff about it buying bitcoin.
can’t believe there are people actually falling for this scam… this should be illegal
what the fuck are they doing with that info lol
Collecting it and either selling it to databrokers or using it directly to target you with ads.
Congratulations, you’re in a new database.
I imagine it has a unique code (last digits of CC#) location and timestamp, and valuable purchase information advertisers are salivating over to profile you; and yes, I mean you, not your cousin. The only cash your cousin will see is just enough scraps to trigger feel-good responses so this can happen again.
Edit: if the receipt is indeed yours…
No, I didn’t let him take the picture and send it to who knows who :P
He also wanted me to sign up because he would get a referral bonus, but I’m good.
Smart move 👍
My wife uses Fetch. Does a lot of this. She scans all our receipts but also receipts she finds. She’s gotten gift cards from it. I don’t trust it though.
I wonder how it goes with AI-generated receipts.
I’m picturing people dumpster diving just to find receipts to scan. I didn’t know this was a thing… hell, I always destroy my personal info on mail packages, gonna start destroying receipts as well.
Man. I never thought I should buy a shredder
That sounds like super sketch, bro. I can’t believe normies are into that kind of shit. Okay, well actually I can, but it just makes me a little sad. 😭
I was bored so I looked up these apps for receipt scanning and it looks like it’s a combination of couponing and consumer data broker. Most of them require you to activate promos on the app first, go shopping, then get “cash back” for certain promo items when you take a picture of the receipt.
I’m guessing this is on top of the discounts you can get directly from grocery store apps (which are surely already brokering purchase data).
One or two of the apps don’t require activating offers at all so I guess those ones are JUST data brokering.
