偷车后的gift card？又来就假币

[billwanhua]

How to spot gift card barcode swap scams


View: https://youtu.be/ohBx2k3yfmM?si=erPRNx5d2XnyREMD

 

[Teddy]

正常渠道买就行，小店不能买，其他渠道只接受免费的

 

[billwanhua]

'Never again,' says Windsor, Ont., senior after embarrassment of empty gift cards

Mark Duguay of Windsor says $275 worth of Tim Hortons cards he bought for friends couldn't be redeemed because they'd already been drained of funds. The CEO of the Better Business Bureau for Western Ontario says it's not an uncommon issue due to scams that may include bar code tampering.

ca.news.yahoo.com

到处都是gift card诈骗

Rise in gift card scams as victims lose millions

Authorities say they have seen an increase in gift cards being used in fraud in recent years.

www.bbc.com

英国也是

 

[billwanhua]

Significant increase in the circulation of counterfeit bills in retail stores

MONTREAL — The Retail Council of Canada is sounding the alarm about a significant increase in fake $20, $50 and $100 bills being circulated since November. The association reports it has detected more counterfeit bills in one month than in the entire previous year. Counterfeiters have refined...

toronto.citynews.ca

Counterfeiters have refined their techniques to such an extent that it has become nearly impossible to detect these counterfeit bills, even for a trained eye, says Michel Rochette, president of the RCC’s Quebec division.

“They are extremely credible; you can’t tell them apart from the real thing. The hologram is really well done. This means that, as we have been saying for a long time, we are facing increasingly structured and organized criminals,“ he says.

完蛋了假币跟真币一样

 

[TESLA]

假币和gift card应该是我们华人的强项啊

 

[billwanhua]

B.C. charity warns of gift card scam after purchased and loaded card was blank | Globalnews.ca

Experts say this kind of scam is becoming increasingly common, and in some cases, scammers pull gift cards from racks, record the PIN, and then put them back.

globalnews.ca

Alexis Root, founder of the society, told Global News that they were contacted by an excavating company in Vancouver and asked if the society could help a family in need over the holiday season.

She said they agreed to help and bought a $500 gift card at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Pitt Meadows.

Root said that later, the family called her and told her the gift card had nothing on it.

Root said the replacement card, provided by Shoppers Drug Mart and given to the same family, also turned out to be empty. Loblaws could not be reached for further comment on Friday.

看来gift card不能买了，慈善机构买了一个$500是空的，又买一个还是空的，已经不是偶然现象了