The WORST Gift Card Scams Explained 😱 (Here's how you can avoid them)

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Gift card scammers are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars, and trying to take YOUR MONEY! From anything like pretending to be the IRS, to accusing you of a crime and arresting you - here's how gift card scams work, and how to avoid them.
00:26 Cost of Gift Card Scams
00:43 Scam #1: Posing as Government or IRS official
01:40 Scam #2: Friend or Family Emergency
02:04 Scam #3: Posing as a Retailer Offering Deals
02:50 Scam #4: Fake Tech Support
03:31 Scam #5: Romance Scams
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@0bits_1 9 месяцев назад

For anybody wondering how these Scammers actually make money off of this. They sell the Gift Cards/Gift Card Accounts on the black market for actual cash. To a decent person, selling a Gift Card worth $100 for $80 seems like a loss, but to a Scammer, this is pure profit as they won't have originally paid ANYTHING for the Gift Card. I felt the need to mention this here as - to my knowledge - she doesn't mention this aspect in the video.

@fuckfannyfiddlefart 2 года назад

The PROBLEM is the gift cards, by making ID a requirement at every STAGE this could be STOPPED systemically.

@jamesedwards3923 6 месяцев назад

Tracible money? So basic right to earnings and privacy. I have an alternative. Put the cards in locked locations accessible only to the employees. Totalitarian actions only imprison and control people. No thanks.

@henrymiranda3564 4 месяца назад

Paypal and aple scamer waiting victms

@MLK.PaNoRaMa Год назад

I still didn't get it if they got the gift card they can only use the value of the card, what else can happen?!

@marouabendriouich223 2 года назад

They scammed me with $600 gift card, thinking they were really an official website. It was a bad experience, and new to me.

@matematicarka 2 года назад

how did it happen, if you dont mind sharing?

@_sugxrchan_4247 Год назад

What happened?

@videorocketzmillar007milla5 2 года назад

When scamners call and ask you to urchase a gift card for: to PAY for a lottery you didn't enter, a IRS tax you need to pay before you go to jail, etc. Ask them WHATS MY NAME ? Usually they don't have your name and if they do, say where do I live? THEY NEVER KNOW BECAUSE THEY GET YOYR NAME ONLINE. Thats all they have. They cannot cancel your Social Security number thats impossible. HANG UP!!!! NEVER GIVE ANY INFO AS U WILL BE ON THEIR SUCKER LIST.

@Shubham-ys3mi 2 года назад

I found one in dating app Stared to asking steam wallet card Bank account details I just blocked

@davesimpson7015 2 года назад

I had an escort ask for the last four digits of the code to verify the amount of money on the card can she get the money off the card with only the last four digits of the code?

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

I just received a call telling me if I purchased the gift card to receive my winnings

@GoodNews-px2im Год назад

Great video. Is that your actual/given name?

@meletaufa Год назад

Samsung manager has been telling me to buy 500 gift card than they will deliver my 800000 US dollars up until now saw your message but until now haven't bought them I need your advice please thanks

@adriandiaconescu2093 Год назад

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ it just happened to me to meet somebody another Website and ask me for card and I thought something was wrong so I just block her

@Blessedbyanangel764 6 месяцев назад

This is most always an inside job of store you bought it at .the one im talking about is when you buy a legit gift card at store and dont check immediately to check the number on reciept matches the number and amount you purchased . Inside store scammers have put it back on shelf and know when its bought so they can register it to a name and steal the value of the card . Because they already scratched and replaced the coating

@fctryoffetsh39 28 дней назад

Wow that means if we can't meet someone you can't believe anybody because everybody is a liar,think of it this sucks,and I noticed someone always asks for a certain card,this means if we don't meet then you don't treat

@user-dc2ie1kk5u Год назад

Them is try it with sick disturbing conversation

@mohawkrider9691 Год назад

Allah loves you for your support towards humanity

@Ry-jl2gg Год назад

What about celebrities asking for a gift card or asking you to get a membership card, which I didn't fall for it

@grebeldance Год назад

Please explain

@grebeldance Год назад

Anthony Hopkins keeps asking me for one. From his verified page but on Chat

@arifurrahman7834 8 месяцев назад

@@grebeldance😮

@NDIFREKEGOODNESS 7 месяцев назад

@@grebeldance get it for him it's real

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

The guy has been calling overall week consecutively

@monixniye-qv7vz Год назад

Hi, somebody is asking me for gift cards receipt, so his he are scammers

@eamonmccormack9541 Год назад

Hi can i ask you some one give money from from usa

@fctryoffetsh39 28 дней назад

The first will never call you

@matematicarka 2 года назад

i still dont get it so i buy a gift card and give the code to someone without them paying meanything for it?how does that even work?

@loveyoursign2923 Год назад

There's an extra bar code sticker over the bar code. It's messed up because after you buy the card your money is gone

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

They try to full your head with plenty lies

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

They say they are at the airport with your package

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

And will reach you soon

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

They are notorious

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

I get regular calls from Samsung

@AJIKOFFICIAL302 2 года назад

Wow 😯

@Commoncrew-dg3rp 4 месяца назад

Can I someone help me I am talking to A girl for a little.while and she asked for a PlayStation gift card for valentines day so she can give it to her friend but it is only.10 bucks

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

They say you have been randomly selected by Samsung lottery

@indaycharing8818 9 дней назад

I got scammed worth of $1000 gift cards

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

I'm so broke I could hardly stand

@DaveBlackman-xf9ro 8 месяцев назад

It's not you alone

@_sugxrchan_4247 Год назад

If I gave my address Am I in danger?

@GCP4 Год назад

Is not dangers about your life but it's dangerous about your cards

@Mico_Mad_ Год назад

@@GCP4 this guy on offer up sent me 200 for 100 worth of a pair of shoes and is telling me to go buy an apple gift card so offer up can send me the money through their because my cashapp wasn’t yet a business account. What does that mean?

@SajidKhan-jv3iz 2 года назад

I was asked by someone to buy the razor gold gift card and I have given the picture of the gift card.. if they hacked it.. then I will loose Only the gift card amount or they can hack into my bank account also.. I have given my phone no also