posted by Mike Burke on Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Holiday gift giving may be over, but scammers demanding gift cards as payment to keep fictitious trouble at bay remains very steady. This lucrative con involves fraudsters contacting victims with a made-up situation requiring payment by gift card to keep them or a loved one out of danger or being arrested. They claim to be from the IRS, a local sheriff's office and even technology support companies. And they don't want the physical card, just the numeric code or bar code associated with the card