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Leonard reached out to the Let Joe Know team to say he received a $100 Walmart card for Christmas, but when he checked the balance, it showed zero. He found out someone used the card in Tucson two weeks earlier. ....
Apr 6, 2021 March 30, 2021 Fraud Marleen Drive 1238hrs A 60- year old Fairview Park resident came to the police station to report she had received two packages containing five checks for $1,000 each and was requested by the sender to buy multiple gift cards after she had cashed checks at her bank. She received documentation telling her she was selected by Shoppers INC., as a secret shopper to make sure businesses complied with how many gift cards they were selling to one person at a time. The documents came in thepackage containing the first three $1,000 checks. She spoke to a representative of the company who had a foreign accent. Two more $1,000 checks arrived in a separate package. She cashed the checks at two area banks. Bank tellers told the victim the check s appeared to be legitimate and she cashed them. Once all the checks were cashed she went to Target and purchased multiple Nike gift cards in the amounts of $500 each. She was asked to use her own cash to buy the ....
They made me scared, said the woman, who asked that her identity not be revealed. It started when she got an email, which appeared to be from Amazon that claimed she bought a $1,800 laptop and a $3,500 camera. The email said that if she didn t order that, she should call immediately. When she called the number provided in the email, a man claiming to be with the Amazon fraud department told her if she didn t do as he asked, the fraudulent activity would continue. These scammers are going to come and ruin you, get into your pension and they re going to get into your savings, she recalled the man telling her. ....
Over a four-day period, Oberg bought a total of $32,000 in gift cards from various major retailers and read the card numbers to the scammer over the phone. She said only two cashiers asked her why she was spending so much money on gift cards. And even when she bought $8,000 worth of cards at one retailer, the cashier said nothing. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. News4 visited seven major retailers and saw that all had signs warning about scams on their gift card displays, although some were more obvious than others. Those same retailers said they train their employees to identify red flags to spot potential fraud victims. ....
That s why 7 On Your Side has a special checklist to avoid getting conned. Two factors are making it easier for criminals to gain access: First, many of us are working on home computers or laptops which don t have the firewalls and protection of being in the office. Because we are working remotely, we aren t seeing our coworkers in HR or IT by the watercooler to chat or check up on that tax email sent to employees which in many cases didn t come from the company at all. That s exactly what happened to a local business in Northvale, New Jersey. An email received around this time of year appeared to be from Human Resources, stating everyone s W-2 had to be updated by orders of the boss, instructing employees to fill out attached forms and reply. ....