Gift Card Guide

This fifth-grader was too smart to beat
Kansas City Star, MO

The $1000 gift card for Best Buy “was a total surprise” to Sanders, too. “I was aware Lauren’s question was used in that show but I didn’t know about the gift card until I received a note from the producers that said: ‘Congratulations, please accept …

Brooklyn Man Arrested in Gift-Card Fraud
New York Times, United States

By Sewell Chan Postal inspectors arrested a 50-year-old Brooklyn man on Thursday night on charges that he was part of a conspiracy to defraud consumers through a Web site that purported to sell discounted gift cards for use at major retailers like Best …
Arrest Made In Internet Gift Card Scheme North Country Gazette
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Western Union now sells Amazon.com gift card claim codes
Trading Markets (press release), CA

Mar 20, 2009 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) — WU | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — The Western Union Company has announced that consumers can now purchase Amazon.com gift card claim codes with cash at its US agent locations. …
Western Union, Amazon to provide Amazon.com Gift Card claim codes … The Paypers (abonnement)
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Card scam suspect faces new charges
Sharon Herald, PA

By Joe Pinchot A Hermitage businessman already charged in Mahoning County as part of a counterfeit gift card scheme is expected to turn himself in Monday for arraignment on related charges filed by Hermitage police, police said. …