Scam Bucket: Legal but “scammy”
Many shady practices on the internet are scams, but some seem "scammy." Cyber Protection Magazine came across one such operation.
While ordering food on Grubhub recently, a pop-up appeared telling us we “earned a reward!” Clicking on the link it offered a $20 rebate on my next purchase. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Not really.
Note: All the companies involved in this transaction will be named in this article. All were contacted for comment. Only Grubhub responded with a request for additional information and then went silent.
Even though the transaction was occurring within the Grubhub mobile app, the pop-up was from an organization called Cashback-Now. The company name is relatively common for several companies, all apparently running the same type of business. In this case the URL is cashback-now.com.
