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Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of knowingly letting scammers exploit its gift cards, and keep stolen funds for itself. According to a filing on Wednesday in federal ...
Use your gift card and gift card store receipt for these next steps if you have already given someone a gift card number: Report the gift card scam to the gift card company right away. No matter ...
The Owens complaint alleged that Apple wrongfully marketed, distributed, and sold iTunes gift cards and songs through its online iTunes store, while representing that consumers could use the gift cards to purchase songs for US$0.99 a song and then, after such gift cards were purchased, raised the price on certain songs to $1.29 on April 7, 2009 ...
In response to a modus operandi by scammers where they coax victims into buying prepaid cards or gift cards for online services, companies such as Apple, along with the Federal Trade Commission, have posted advisories warning customers over the illicit use of gift cards by scammers, and not to give out the code to anyone they do not know.
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 ...
Gift card draining is a way to steal funds off of gift cards. Here are ways to avoid the scam. ... buy one near the register or behind the counter in a store. Gift card recipients should also ...
Gift cards are a great way to show someone you care by giving them more of a choice if they are purchasing a product, or by giving more of an ‘experience', like dinner or the movies, for example.