Someone was with my gift card
The cards are much more popular than ever before, but more stories of fraud, the towerSusan Leibowitz figures they had found the ideal gift for former employees moving from one cross-country - a $ 615 gift card-Target (TGT). Not only that his friend loves shopping at retailers, but it was to move from a city with a Target Store (Roanoke, Va.) and on the use of this gift to decorate their new home, when and how she loved. Plus, it was easy. Leibowitz, a Los Angeles-based Network News Producer, money collected by his colleagues and bought the map in a few minutes to the West a target of Hollywood. But a week later, their satisfaction turned to horror as his friend called to report: “The money is gone!” She had tried to buy the card and he found value.
During the year for the greatest gift cards with an annual turnover has increased by 7% to $ 53 billion, according to researchers at Mercator Advisory Group, buyers and recipients are learning traps the famous prepaid card by retailers. The local police departments and offices Better Business swindler say adaptation of technology in identity theft and fraud credit card to my flaws in the gift card.
Systems in general can be classified into three types: steal data such as barcodes and tapes of news, data and planting Verwöhn fraud in the body (usually the work of employees with access to cards and systems to activate or to pay them). People interviewed in 2005, the National Retail Security Survey, conducted by the University of Florida’s Center for Studies in Criminology and Law, estimate that employees are responsible for 62% of gift card fraud, while stolen cards and falsified for 13% respectively.
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