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

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   Report the gift card scam to the gift card company right away. No matter how long ago the scam happened, report it. Use the How To Contact Gift Card Companies list below.

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

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   Gift card recipients should also check the balance and use the cards quickly to lower any risk. When buying a gift card, use a credit card to make your purchase. That will boost the odds of ...

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

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   A study by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) found that gift card scams nearly tripled between 2017 and 2020, making them the second-highest fraud type behind credit cards.

5. How Not to Fall for Gift Card Scams - AOL

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   According to the FTC, consumers reported 48,800 cases of gift card fraud or reload card fraud totaling more than $228 million in losses last year. That's more cases than the following other types ...

6. GiftCards.com - Wikipedia

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   GiftCards.com is an online gift-card retailer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1][ 2] The company sells gift cards for thousands of different large corporate retailers and small businesses [ 3] including Vanillagifts.com, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Sephora, Coach, Amazon.com, and others. [ 4][ 5][ 6] The company also offers prepaid Visa and ...

7. 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 ...

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. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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   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. The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars are ...