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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Man. I never thought I should buy a shredder

[-] prex@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good for compost but I wouldn't compost receipts. Thermal paper is loaded with BPA.

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

They don't need to go dumpster diving. People leave plenty of receipts in self checkout printers or on the ground in the parking lot.

The only catch to that is, Fetch started getting wind of people doing that, so it might tell you that you have so much time to scan the barcode of one of the products included, or the entire receipt will be invalidated. If you just bought it, you would have it handy (so, best to scan the receipt as you unload the groceries, at home). If you found the receipt in the store, you might be able to find the merchandise in time, like a little one-shot game of Supermarket Sweep. But if you found it outside the store... your chances go down a bit. And, I think, if you have too many receipts invalidated, they might just brand you a cheater and kick you off the program. But I'm not really sure.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I've often wondered if typical retail receipts contain any sensitive info which would give me reason to shred them before discarding but the worst thing on there is last four digits of whichever card I used, and the merchant address, date/time, what I bought, but nothing directly tying it to ME unless some weirdo wants to figure out how to correlate people with last 4 of card numbers, but how inanely ridiculous that would be...yet here we are apparently 🤦🏼‍♀️

[-] tektite@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Sometimes the cardholder's name will be printed on the receipt.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 15 points 1 week ago

I wonder how it goes with AI-generated receipts.

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