Shopping Surveys: Membership Scam

NearlyLost12

Anybody received emails promising some incredible guaranteed prize for completing a survey about shopping?  I have received 2 recently: ostensibly from Screwfix and Sainsbury's. In both cases the 'prize' was substantial; I only had to pay £2 for shipment.

When you get to the page where you enter your details having done the survey there's some very small print which says the £2 is actually a trial 5 day membership of something called budgetload.app. This claims to help you with budgeting but it's more likely to wreck your budget,  Standard membership is £62.  A month.

It's clearly a misleading scam to sign people up for a service which seems pointless.  The email and subsequent pages have countdown clocks and say you have to act fast to take advantage; another red flag.  Although if you ignore it the countdown clock just resets.

Although the original email and survey are covered with the branding of the supposed suppliers it's very unlikely these companies would give permission let alone want to be associated with these scammers.

Avoid.

PHK

Have you reported it to the governments "Rip off Tip off" website ?

forgotmyname

I posted about the Screwfix one recently and someone else said they got the same message although they
were being scammed for less than me which seems a tad unfair.  

Albermarle

Anybody received emails promising some incredible guaranteed prize for completing a survey about shopping?

After reading the first line of the OP, it was already clear that it was a scam.