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2. Gift card scams 2023: What to know about 'card draining' and ...

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   December 13, 2023 at 5:14 AM. With the holiday season comes more shopping and with more shopping comes more scams and fraudsters looking to take advantage of your holiday goodwill. From supposed ...

3. Police Send Warning About Gift Card Scam During Holidays

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   According to USA Today, a California man was arrested for tampering with gift cards in a Target in Sacramento last week, and police officials found more than 5,000 gift cards from Apple and Target ...

4. 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 ...

5. Top 15 financial scams targeting older Americans — and what ...

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   The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, causing seniors to lose over $3.4 billion. And those ...

6. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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   IRS impersonation scam. An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets ...

7. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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   The preferred method of payment in a technical support scam is via 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 ...

8. What is gift card draining? How to prevent getting scammed - AOL

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   A 2022 AARP survey found that nearly one in four people have given or received gift cards that had no funds on them. Gift card and reload card fraud cost $228 million last year, according to the ...

9. Internet fraud - Wikipedia

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   Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance. Internet fraud is not considered a single, distinctive crime but covers a range of illegal and illicit ...