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2. Phony $1,000 Target Gift Card is the Scam of the Year - AOL

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   A fake contest for a $1,000 Target (TGT) gift card has been declared 2012's "Scam of the Year" by online complaint resolution platform Scambook. The fraud, which Scambook spotted back in November ...

3. Target gift card scam lands man in Ocala jail facing ... - AOL

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   Here's how the scam works: Thieves steal gift cards from numerous Target stores and save the security codes and card numbers. The compromised cards are then returned to Target stores and placed ...

4. 4 Scams Aimed at Target Shoppers: Here’s How To Avoid Them

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5. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   Examples include the diamond hoax of 1872 and the Bre-X gold fraud of the mid-1990s. This trick was featured in the HBO series Deadwood, when Al Swearengen and E. B. Farnum trick Brom Garret into believing gold is to be found on the claim Swearengen intends to sell him. This con was also featured in Sneaky Pete.

6. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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   Advance-fee scam. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [ 1][ 2] If a victim makes the ...

7. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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   Scammers target a variety of people, though research by Microsoft suggests that millennials (defined by Microsoft as age 24-37) and people part of generation Z (age 18-23) have the highest exposure to tech support scams and the Federal Trade Commission has found that seniors (age 60 and over) are more likely to lose money to tech support scams.

8. 19 Money-Saving Secrets Target Doesn’t Want You To Know - AOL

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   12. Shop Online Instead of In-Store. "My advice to save money at Target that most people don't know -- and that Target does not talk about -- is that online prices are cheaper than in the store ...

9. Scam - Wikipedia

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   The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of the FBI received 847,376 reports in 2021 with a reported loss of money of $6.9 billion in the US alone. [9] The Global Anti Scam Alliance annual Global State of Scam Report, stated that globally $47.8 billion was lost and the number of reported scams increased from 139 million in 2019 to 266 million ...