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2. Gift Card Scams: What They Are and How to Avoid Them - AOL

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   If you plan to purchase a gift card this holiday season, beware: Scammers are now using them to swipe your money. A study by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) found that gift card scams nearly ...

3. Carding (fraud) - Wikipedia

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   Carding (fraud) Carding refers not only to payment card based fraud, but also to a range of related activities and services. Carding is a term of the trafficking and unauthorized use of credit cards. [ 1] The stolen credit cards or credit card numbers are then used to buy prepaid gift cards to cover up the tracks. [ 2]

4. Common gift card scams and how to avoid them this ... - AOL

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   The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation offers these tips to keep scammers from stealing your money via gift cards. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please ...

5. Scam Alert: IRS Warns of Scammers Asking for Gift Cards for ...

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   'Tis the season -- for financial scams of all kinds, when hackers and thieves attempt to separate well-meaning, hard-working people from their money. See: IRS Offers Advice on How You Can Avoid ...

6. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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   The preferred method of payment in a technical support scam is through gift cards. [41] Gift cards are favoured by scammers because they are readily available to buy and have less consumer protections in place that could allow the victim to reclaim their money back. Additionally, the usage of gift cards as payment allows the scammers to extract ...

7. Snappy Gifts - Wikipedia

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   Snappy Gifts was founded in 2015 by Dvir Cohen and Hani Goldstein in San Francisco and later moved its headquarters to New York.Initially, the company raised 1.6 million dollars and started off focusing on "personal client gifting" but in 2017 shifted its business model to corporate gifting while offering an enterprise version of its platform.

8. Holiday Scam: What Is Gift Card Draining Plus 4 Red Flags to ...

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   As Americans continue to slide through holiday mode, they're going to get more calls, emails and texts for legitimate shopping deals. But they're also increasingly going to be the targets of ...

9. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".