Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Beware of Gift Card Fraud

Many of you may be giving your friends and family members gift cards this time of the year, so be aware of the following:
If you buy Gift Cards from a display rack that has various store cards you may become a victim of theft. Crooks are now jotting down the card numbers in the store and then wait a few days and call to see how much of a balance they have on the card. Once they find the card is "activated", and then they go online and start shopping. You may want to purchase your card from a customer service person, where they do not have the Gift Cards viewable to the public. This has been confirmed by snopes.com as a real fraud.
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/giftcard.asp

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