While many gift card scams involve thieves demanding payments via prepaid cards, there's a less obvious type of fraud known ...
Organized crime has quietly turned the humble gift card into a billion dollar pipeline, draining balances before recipients ...
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Almost half the people reading this story have a gift card in their wallet or at home right now, data shows. And if they bought a gift card from major beauty retailer Sephora, it's possible the card ...
Organized. Overseas. And ongoing. Those words describe a crime wave that targets U.S. gift cards. The NBC Bay Area Responds team has spent the past few months investigating the scam, following the ...
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) warns consumers to activate gift cards promptly to avoid scams that steal card details and ...
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