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

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   Gift cards are remarkably popular as holiday gifts and with scammers because they’re easy for people to find and buy and they have fewer protections for buyers compared to some other payment ...

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

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   How Scammers Try To Collect Gift Cards from Taxpayers. Although this scam can happen year-round, it frequently occurs during the holiday season. The IRS recently released a notice to warn ...

4. Maker of popular gift cards sued over alleged ‘card draining ...

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   The reason why prepaid Visa Vanilla gift cards as well as other prepaid gift cards are being targeted by card draining scams is because of their versatility. These kinds of cards “can be used ...

5. 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 ...

6. Beware of scammers asking you to buy gift cards - AOL

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   Aug. 2—Scammers are impersonating government officials and political leaders in order to obtain gift cards, according to an alert from the New Hampshire Attorney General. In several instances, a ...

7. Internet fraud - Wikipedia

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   Nina Kollars of the Naval War College explains an Internet fraud scheme that she stumbled upon while shopping on eBay.. 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.

8. Visa is sued over 'Vanilla' gift card scam - AOL

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   Visa was sued on Tuesday by consumers who said the card payments network failed to make prepaid "Vanilla" gift cards less likely to being drained by thieves. Ira Schuman, who leads the proposed ...

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

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