If your e-mail in-basket includes messages offering cash for completing a survey about Woolworths supermarket operations – ignore it. Better still, delete it immediately.
The No. 1 supermarket operator has warned Internet and mobile phone users about scam messages purporting to be a Woolworths offer of cash for completing the survey.
Consumer Protection – a WA fair trading organisation – says a number of sandgropers have received fake e-mails, Facebook messages and text messages, asking them to answer five questions about the supermarket to claim $50 cash.
It asks customers to rate the store’s performance, then asks for the recipient’s name, address, driver’s licence number, Medicare number and bank account details.
Consumer Protection’s David Hillyard says the scam is highly convincing. “They’ve replicated everything to make it look legitimate,” he said. “They are not littered with spelling mistakes that we might normally see in things which have been put together by people from overseas, so it looks quite professional.”
