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Tim D
Posted: 24 February 2023 20:25:43(UTC)
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Wife had a receipt from Sainsbury's with an invite to some feedback site lettuce-know.com.

However some sneaky 5h1t has managed to get lettuce-know.uk further up the search rankings or whatever drives URL autocomplete suggestions, and when you land on that site instead... it's some sort of phishing attempt (didn't stick around to find the exact nature of the scam).

Reported it as a phishing site at
https://safebrowsing.goo...ing/report_phish/?hl=en
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https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/...site/report-scam-website
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Nigel G
Posted: 24 February 2023 21:39:24(UTC)
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It doesn't look as though you can enter any details on the lettuce-know.uk website and it actually tells you to vist the dot com site instead (which in turn will take you to feedback.sainsburys.co.uk).

Always good to check though, especially with very similar website names.
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Tim D
Posted: 24 February 2023 23:29:21(UTC)
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Wife says it started to bombard her with scammy popups as soon as she tried to interact with it (but she can't remember whether that was pressing "start survey" or something else). Looking at the page source, I think it's more likely bad timing and the site just pulls in some dubious advertising sources.

Looking at the youtube channel, there seems to be a pattern... e.g tesco have an official feedback site at tescoviews.com, and it looks like this grifter set up a tescoviews.uk to "explain" how to use it. No idea if the game is merely chasing ad revenue or something more malign.
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Maloney
Posted: 18 May 2023 14:58:30(UTC)
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Hate to admit I was conned out of £3. There's a pop up on the Sainsburys Lettuce Know site, which looks as though it's from Sainsburys and showing the Sainsburys logo. There's no mention of their own company, which is Stripey Giraffe. There's a big start button. You're asked for details, so that a code can be sent by SMS letting you into what you think is the Sainsburys site. You then start receiving text messages from Stripey Giraffe charged to you at premium rate. I'm wise to text scams, although I wasn't to the SMS code bit, so keep very little money in my O2 account. As a result, I lost no more than £3, though I've read online of people on contract losing up to £70. I put a STOP on further texts and blocked the number, which appears to have worked. Not much joy from either Sainsburys or O2. Can't do a lot about it was the gist.
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ANDREW FOSTER
Posted: 18 May 2023 15:28:13(UTC)
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Maloney;267363 wrote:
Hate to admit I was conned out of £3. There's a pop up on the Sainsburys Lettuce Know site, which looks as though it's from Sainsburys and showing the Sainsburys logo. There's no mention of their own company, which is Stripey Giraffe. There's a big start button. You're asked for details, so that a code can be sent by SMS letting you into what you think is the Sainsburys site. You then start receiving text messages from Stripey Giraffe charged to you at premium rate. I'm wise to text scams, although I wasn't to the SMS code bit, so keep very little money in my O2 account. As a result, I lost no more than £3, though I've read online of people on contract losing up to £70. I put a STOP on further texts and blocked the number, which appears to have worked. Not much joy from either Sainsburys or O2. Can't do a lot about it was the gist.


Go to O2 and claim fraud (as it was). O2 gave them your money.....

It may only be £3 but I'd "escalate quickly" telling O2 to give your money back or you will go to the police. Give them 24 hours, then do exactly that.
It creates way more than £3 or chaos and disruption for them and eventually they may change behaviour and stop giving your money to other people.
Demand the name and trading address of the recipient company.
Also ask O2 for a VAT receipt for your payment.
When they won't give you one, go to the HMRC and report what you believe is a VAT fraud.

There are hours of mischief you can cause doing things like this and someone, somewhere is going to add your number to a blocked list.
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Tim D
Posted: 20 May 2023 18:43:39(UTC)
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@Maloney: well thanks at least you have clarified for us what the nature of the scam is. Fortunately wife never gave it any info.
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