This ‘Gift Card Draining’ Scam Wants to Steal Your Christmas Money

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If you received gift cards over the holidays, don’t throw them in a drawer and forget about them. While many gift card scams involve thieves demanding payments—for everything from taxes and fines owed to outstanding utility bills—via prepaid cards, there’s a less obvious type of fraud known as gift card draining. How gift card draining […]

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