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Victims receive postcards in the mail offering free gift cards, but when they try to claim, the scam kicks in.

Scammers walk into stores, take dozens of gift cards off the shelves, and walk out without going through the checkouts.

File this one under stories we love: a Target cashier and security specialist teamed up to save a Triangle elder from a gift card scam. "This is a perfect example of how we should look out for each ...

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Thanks to a quick-thinking shopper and a Target store clerk, an older woman was saved from a scam that could have cost her thousands of dollars. Karen Rodder was grabbing some items in a Target store ...

AVOID A SCAM KNOWN AS GIFT CARD DRAINING. EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE TEAM HAS HEARD FROM A FEW VIEWERS RECENTLY TELLING US ABOUT GIFT CARDS THAT HAD A ZERO BALANCE WHEN THEY WENT TO USE THEM. ACCORDING TO THE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ATLANTA (WJBF) – A new Georgia law is giving law enforcement more tools to go after gift card scams, making it a crime to steal, ...