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2. Apple gift card scam leads to $1.8 million settlement. Are ...

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3. Apple agrees to settle lawsuit over iTunes gift card scam - AOL

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   Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of knowingly letting scammers exploit its gift cards, and keep stolen funds for itself. According to a filing on Wednesday in federal ...

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

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   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 that gift card scams nearly ...

5. Carding (fraud) - Wikipedia

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   Carding (fraud) Carding refers not only to payment card based fraud, but also to a range of related activities and services. 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]

6. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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   An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars ...

7. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure ...

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

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   Report the gift card scam to the gift card company right away. ... While buying gift cards at a discounted price sounds like a great way to save on holiday gift spending, the old adage applies: If ...

9. Scam Alert: IRS Warns of Scammers Asking for Gift Cards for ...

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   The IRS recently released a notice to warn taxpayers about the scam. Here’s how it works: Someone will call a taxpayer and pose as the IRS, asking for gift cards from a variety of stores as ...