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

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    Gift card draining” involves criminals recording numbers and PINs from unpurchased gift cards, then placing them back in the packaging.

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

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    December 7, 2021 at 11:35 AM. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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    The preferred method of payment in a technical support scam is through gift cards. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...

  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. Why scammers love gift cards and what to watch out for ... - AOL

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    Whether it’s a phone call from someone claiming to work for the government or a someone selling an item online, if they ask for gift cards as payment it’s likely a scam, according to the FBI.