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

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   Card draining. "Card draining" is a popular scam that leaves gift card purchasers with an empty balance despite having paid for the card. Several local and national law enforcement agencies have ...

3. 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 ...

4. What is gift card draining? How to prevent getting scammed - AOL

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   A 2022 AARP survey found that nearly one in four people have given or received gift cards that had no funds on them. Gift card and reload card fraud cost $228 million last year, according to the ...

5. TripAdvisor Gift Card - a scam, right? - Tripadvisor Support ...

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   58 reviews. 104 helpful votes. TripAdvisor Gift Card - a scam, right? 12 years ago. When check-in here at TripAdvisor a few minutes ago, a pop-up window showed telling me, that I was to-day's winner of at TripAdvisor Gift Card at the value of USD 500. Somehow it didn't look right and I clicked it off, anticipating it was a scam.

6. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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   The preferred method of payment in a technical support scam is through gift cards. Gift cards are favoured by scammers because they are readily available to buy and have less consumer protections in place that could allow the victim to reclaim their money back. Additionally, the usage of gift cards as payment allows the scammers to extract ...

7. Hotels.com Very Dishonest - Fraudulent Use of my Gift Card

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   10. Re: Hotels.com Very Dishonest - Fraudulent Use of my Gift Card. Sometimes a mistake or technical glitch is exactly that. While I don't disagree that Hotels.com could do better investigating, it's simply too much of a leap to conclude that it's a deliberate act by an individual employee or a group of employees.

8. 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]

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

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