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How a Neils Harbour business helped stop a gift card scam

How a Neils Harbour business helped stop a gift card scam

by CBC News | Aug 5, 2021 | Recent Articles

Aug. 5, 2021 – Nova Scotia Mounties say employees of a small Cape Breton grocery store are to be thanked for spotting a gift card scam and notifying two victims about it. In mid-June, a customer at the Neils Harbour Co-op purchased about 20 gift cards...
How a Neils Harbour business helped stop a gift card scam

Robbing the Xbox vault: a $10 million gift card scam

by Bloomberg News | Jul 8, 2021 | Recent Articles

July 8, 2021 – The Xbox gift card came with a string of 25 letters and numbers. The digits, known as a 5×5 code, were sent in an email, but they were no different from the numbers and letters etched onto the gift cards hanging off tall racks near the...
How a Neils Harbour business helped stop a gift card scam

Senior says she was tricked into spending $20K in gift-card phone scam

by CBC News | Jun 7, 2021 | Recent Articles

June 7, 2021 – A Vancouver senior wants to warn the public of a phone scam after she was tricked into buying $20,000 in gift cards.  The 74-year-old says she received a phone call on May 25 from someone who sounded exactly like her 24-year-old grandson. The man...
How a Neils Harbour business helped stop a gift card scam

Edmonton woman loses nearly $250K in three-month gift card scam

by Edmonton Journal | Apr 3, 2021 | Recent Articles

April 3, 2021 – City police are asking Edmontonians to talk to their loved ones about phone and online scams after a local woman was conned out of $245,000. In a Thursday news release, police said the scammer contacted a woman last December posing as a fraud...
How a Neils Harbour business helped stop a gift card scam

P.E.I. RCMP warn of fraudsters pretending to be investigators

by Chronicle Herald | Feb 24, 2021 | Recent Articles

Feb. 24, 2021 – Police have recently caught fraudsters pretending to be investigators and requesting people buy gift cards. The Kings District RCMP sent out a media release on Jan. 29, saying the scammers, possibly originating in Ontario, ask people to buy gift...

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