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Weird app paying you to scan receipts (lemmy.ml)

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

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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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[-] umbrellacloud@leminal.space 8 points 1 week ago

There are some 'legit' apps that do this, for the purpose of targeting you with ads. Hard to believe, but some people want to be specifically catered to with ads. There are also a lot of poor people who sign up to these things to make a few extra dollars and get free samples from review sites, which is kind of in the same category of website/app. For example I knew someone who got paid to review Chromebooks or Netbooks or something from a Chinese manufacturer. There are survey sites and apps too, and other data collection apps which pay users small amounts of money for small amounts of data.

However what your cousin was doing sounds even more sketchy than that. It sounds like the sort of thing that will somehow turn out to be crime.

this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026

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