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2. 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 ...

3. How Not to Fall for Gift Card Scams - AOL

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   According to the FTC, consumers reported 48,800 cases of gift card fraud or reload card fraud totaling more than $228 million in losses last year. That's more cases than the following other types ...

4. Here's What to Do When You’re a Fraud or Scam Victim - AOL

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   Fraud alerts are free and last 90 days or seven years, depending on which type of alert you choose. To reach the three nationwide credit bureaus, just visit their website or give one of them a ...

5. Email fraud - Wikipedia

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   Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations. Email fraud can take the form of a confidence ...

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

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   'Tis the season -- for financial scams of all kinds, when hackers and thieves attempt to separate well-meaning, hard-working people from their money. See: IRS Offers Advice on How You Can Avoid ...

7. 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. No matter how long ago the scam happened, report it. Use the How To Contact Gift Card Companies list below. ... email or message ...

8. Beware of gift card fraud — don't let it hijack your perfect ...

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   The very real dangers of gift card fraud. “Generally speaking, gift card fraud is easier to commit than other types of scams,” cyber security expert Rafael Lourenco, Executive Vice President ...

9. Beware of gift card fraud — don't let it hijack your holiday ...

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   The Federal Trade Commission reports that gift card fraud has been on the rise since the pandemic started. In the first nine months of 2021, more gift card fraud was reported than in all of 2020 ...