Tag "Gift Card Scam"
How Crooks Drain Money Off Your Gift Cards
Gift cards make great holiday gifts for people of all ages, in according to a National Retail Federation survey of 7,200 consumers, 56 percent of respondents have gift cards on their Christmas shopping list. Retailers expect to sell more than $27 billion worth
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Gift Card Scam
Gift card scam is in alert for all shoppers, take the hard-learned experience from one couple who recently shopped at a CVS for a $100 pair of Nordstrom gift cards and gave them to their daughter. She then tried to buy something
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Scam Artists Get Victims to Pay With iTunes Gift Cards
A gift card is like cash — a quick, convenient and untraceable way for con artists to get money. And even if the victim realizes they’ve been scammed, there’s typically no way to reverse the transaction. Right now, the popular
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Gift Card Scam Could Leave Your Card Worthless
If you received gift cards over the holidays then you might want to take precaution as the gift card scam could claim your cash. So, what if you find out your gift card has no money on it? RELATED: Beware of Online Pet
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Beware of Grandparents Scam
Grandparents scam, which targets an older person’s instincts to do whatever they can to help their children or grandchildren. One elderly man describes what happened when he was targeted: RELATED: Assembly Passes measures aimed at FoodShare, Unemployment fraud “The phone rang, I
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Home Depot Scam on Gift Cards
The large-scale fencing operation, conducted by a father of four, used a team of prostitutes, heroin users, parolees and panhandlers to steal high-priced items from local Home Depots. He then would recruit homeless people from shelters to return the stolen merchandise to
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