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Scammers may pretend to be a company that sent you a check for way more than you were supposed to receive by accident and ask you to send back the difference on a gift card. However, the check ...
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 ...
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
In either case, you’re asked to share the gift card number and pin code over the phone or text, handing over all the scammer needs to drain the money you’ve put on the gift card. And because ...
The preferred method of payment in a technical support scam is through gift cards. [41] 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 ...
Microsoft Points, introduced in November 2005 as Xbox Live Points, [1] were a digital currency issued by Microsoft for use on its Xbox and Zune product lines. Points could be used to purchase video games and downloadable content from Xbox Live Marketplace, digital content such as music and videos on Zune Marketplace, along with content from Windows Live Gallery.
Since there is no limit to a scam artist’s potential, recognizing signs of common scams will serve you well. Here are examples of three of the most common scams out there today and how to block ...
When baiting IRS scammers and other types of scammers that request payments via gift card, Kitboga uses a piece of computer code to make the gift card redemption page accept any gift code that follows a specified format. Then, when the scammer asks him to read out the gift codes so they can redeem them to take payment from the victim, he types ...