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Tell you to click a link to make a payment. Offer you government refunds. Send coupons you didn’t ask for. Use generic messages paired with the logo of a well-known company. Speak in typo-filled ...
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] Activities also encompass exploitation of ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
G2A.COM Limited (commonly referred to as G2A) is a digital marketplace headquartered in the Netherlands, with offices in Poland and Hong Kong. The site operates in the resale of gaming products by the use of redemption keys. Other items sold on the site are software, prepaid activation codes, electronics, and merchandise.
Not many years ago, scammers would direct a victim to go to the bank to withdraw money to put on a gift card. Or trusting relatives would take them to the bank to take advantage of them.
The new IRS rules are fairly straightforward. As of Jan. 1, payment platforms like Venmo, PayPal and Zelle must report to the IRS the transactions of anyone who receives $600 or more per year in ...
There's some misinformation circulating on social media right now. A specific post resembling a store sign or printed notice claims you can avoid paying taxes on PayPal and Venmo transactions if ...
Some companies, for example PayPal, always address their customers by their username in emails, so if an email addresses the recipient in a generic fashion ("Dear PayPal customer") it is likely to be an attempt at phishing.