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2. Holiday Scam: What Is Gift Card Draining Plus 4 Red Flags to ...

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   These thieves then wait until the card is purchased and activated – finding that information online – and use the card until the balance is depleted, leaving the buyer with a worthless gift card.

3. Police Send Warning About Gift Card Scam During Holidays

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   For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ... as a gift card scam called "card draining" is currently running rampant in various parts of the country. ... do not buy it and bring it ...

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

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   If the unsuspecting taxpayer purchases the cards and calls the scammer back, they will be asked to share the gift card number and PIN so the scammer can use the card for online purchases. How the ...

5. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

6. Use AOL Certified Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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   AOL may send you emails from time to time about products or features we think you'd be interested in. If you're ever concerned about the legitimacy of these emails, just check to see if there's a green "AOL Certified Mail" icon beside the sender name. When you open the email, you'll also see the Certified Mail banner above the message details.

7. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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   The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...

8. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password. AOL will NEVER ask for your password and would not ask you to ...

9. Carding (fraud) - Wikipedia

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   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] Activities also encompass exploitation of personal data, [3] and money laundering techniques. [4] Modern carding sites have been described as full ...