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2. Visa is sued over 'Vanilla' gift card scam - AOL

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   Visa was sued on Tuesday by consumers who said the card payments network failed to make prepaid "Vanilla" gift cards less likely to being drained by thieves. Ira Schuman, who leads the proposed ...

3. Maker of popular gift cards sued over alleged ‘card draining ...

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   The reason why prepaid Visa Vanilla gift cards as well as other prepaid gift cards are being targeted by card draining scams is because of their versatility. These kinds of cards “can be used ...

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

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   Gift card draining is a way to steal funds off of gift cards. Here are ways to avoid the scam. ... She bought $2,000 worth of Vanilla Visa gift cards at a CVS in New York City only to discover ...

5. Police Send Warning About Gift Card Scam During Holidays

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   According to USA Today, a California man was arrested for tampering with gift cards in a Target in Sacramento last week, and police officials found more than 5,000 gift cards from Apple and Target ...

6. BBB Consumer Alert: Gift card scams - AOL

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   Here’s how the gift card scam works: Scammers tamper with gift cards in stores using handheld scanners to capture card information, then periodically check the balance by calling the retailer ...

7. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   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".

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

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   What to know about the gift card scam:Police warn holiday shoppers about card draining Holiday drinks: Try one of these 12 Christmas, holiday craft beers from Louisville breweries Using gift cards ...

9. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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   Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks , typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.