Scammers aim to take advantage of both buyers and sellers. Here’s how to spot and avoid them Criminals Pretend to Be Your Pal in ‘Do Me a Favor’ Scams An increasingly common scheme involves impostors claiming to need help buying gift cards How, Why and When to Check (or Freeze) Yo...
Scammers aim to take advantage of both buyers and sellers. Here’s how to spot and avoid them Criminals Pretend to Be Your Pal in ‘Do Me a Favor’ Scams An increasingly common scheme involves impostors claiming to need help buying gift cards How, Why and When to Check (or Freeze) Yo...
You should also be innately skeptical of anyone who requests gift cards as a form of payment. In reality, no reputable business or government agency will ever instruct you to buy a gift card to pay them. Similarly, no sweepstakes will ever require you to pay a fee to claim your prize, ...
"Gift card draining is a numbers game. The more cards that scammers can drain, the more money they can steal," he added. "It behooves them to use bots that can drain thousands of gift cards within seconds." It is also easy for scammers to get away with, said David McClellan,...
Cards, Coins, Money, Advice Try and remember that ever hackers, scammers, catfish, and tricksters need an “in”. As the classic line suggests, “If it seems too good to be true it probably is!” Question the benevolence of other gamers and never accept any gifts, money, ...
The scammer will use someone else's account, sometimes even with that persons knowledge and assistance, get the money, take the money out via some irreversible means (gift cards or money order), then be long gone when the refund hits the actual account owner and reduces their balance. The ...
Gift cards are good alternatives for shopping without cash or credit cards, and they also make for great gift items. However, scammers are also using gift cards to perpetrate charge-back and other scams. Scammers sometimes also use stolen credit cards to buy gift cards and resell same to un...
are absolute crooks, don’t give them the chance to get their hands on your hard earned cash. Buy your gift cards from brick and mortar places. I’ve since learned that online gift card sales are criminal in general but this site is just so blatant about it something needs to be done...
Another scam just popped up and this time, it isn't trying to victimize you on Facebook Marketplace or ask you to buy thousands of dollars of gift cards. Nope. This time, it is using our kids and schools as bait. And this scam is a good one and could easily trick you...took me...
According to the FBI, common BEC scams include: cyber criminals posing as a vendor your company regularly deals with that sends an invoice with a (fake) updated mailing address; a company CEO asking an employeeto buy gift cards to send out as rewards-- and to send the gift card codes ov...