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

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    By Jonathan Stempel. (Reuters) - 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.

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

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    What is being done about this scam? The Retail Gift Card Association and Vanilla Gift tell NBC News that thieves have become more adept and innovative when it comes to finding ways to...

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

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    The lawsuit, filed by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, draws attention to InComm Financial Services’ proprietary nonreloadable gift cards, “Vanilla Gift” and “One Vanilla,” which...

  5. GiftCards.com - Wikipedia

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    GiftCards.com. 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 ...

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

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    If anyone tells you to pay with a gift card or to buy gift cards for anything other than a gift, it’s a scam. You’ll lose your money, and you won’t be able to get it back. Receiving a...

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      Andy Cohen fell victim to a credit card scam. Lessons he said he learned to protect yourself
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  7. Gift Card Scams: What They Are and How to Avoid Them - AOL

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    What is a gift card scam? There are two types of gift card scams, according to experts. The first involves trying to trick you into paying an impostor with gift cards.

  8. Carding (fraud) - Wikipedia

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    CarderPlanet. 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 personal data, [3] and money laundering techniques. [4]

  9. Gift card - Wikipedia

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    The most common form of gift card fraud is committed through the act of stealing card information for activated cards with an existing balance by attacking a retailer's systems which store gift card data.

  10. 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...

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

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    Impersonation Scams: This is the most common type of gift card scam, where scammers may impersonate a trusted individual or organization, such as a government agency, a utility company, a tech ...