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03/22/2012

Text Message Offering Walmart Gift Card is a Smishing Scam

Have you received a text message offering you a free Walmart gift card? Despite the attraction of a $1,000 gift card, Better Business Bureau is warning consumers that the Walmart gift card text message is a smishing scam.

12/01/2006

FTC-Buying, Giving, and Using Gift Cards

Shopping for gifts can be a real dilemma. Just what do you get the person who has everything: your finicky Aunt Mary, your co-worker, or your child's babysitter? Gift cards may be the answer: one size fits all, and the recipients can get exactly what they want.

01/01/2000

FTC- The Gifting Club "Gotcha"

When is a gift not a gift? When it’s a "gotcha." In a scam spreading throughout the mid-Atlantic states and the Pacific Northwest, people pay to join a "gifting club," billed in promotional materials as a private club with members eager to help new friends -- often from within their own neighborhood or church group.


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