Post Ad0MgSSMrW9KDlKAAy by Itty53@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #Acwf6iezIqbKvFW4Zc by briankrebs@infosec.exchange
2023-12-18T19:29:53Z
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Hey everyone! I'm guessing a lot of you will be buying last minute gifts for people, and those tend to involve gift cards. Be very careful when you're buying these off-the-rack at retail stores that sell gift cards for various popular restaurants and brands. Especially those that are not in particularly tamper-proof packaging. A friend just shared some photos he took after buying a bunch of Dardens restaurant gift cards for some gifts to clients. They didn't discover until leaving the store that several of the cards had been tampered with, their PIN scratch-offs re-covered with look-alike scratch off stickers. Also, the phony ones seem to have goofy looking barcodes, like they were scanned and printed by a laser printer without enough ink.The trick here is the thieves pull the card out, scratch off the PIN part, record that, cover up the pin with fake tape, and then shove the thing back in the packaging and put it back on the shelf. Then, when someone buys it, the thieves can access the value on the card the minute it is activated (purchased).The image shows two of these cards that are non-tampered (left) and two on the right that were. These cards can slide right out of their packaging with a little wiggling, and slide back in the same way.Some stores keep their gift cards behind the counter for this reason. Might be best going for those instead of the ones in aisle 19.
(DIR) Post #Acwf6lCjqKmqoVK3SS by briankrebs@infosec.exchange
2023-12-18T19:33:41Z
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in before...this obviously is not a NEW thing. Just a heads up.https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/buyers-beware-of-tampered-gift-cards/
(DIR) Post #Ad0Mbe0kTWzSbo6tkm by kurtseifried@infosec.exchange
2023-12-18T19:45:33Z
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@briankrebs shouldn’t the cashier be checking these things? Although I guess with self check out now…. Wait a sec. I just bought a compost pail at Home Depot and using the self check out when I scanned it it told me to wait for an attendant. The attendant came over, opened up the compost pail, looked inside of it, and then keyed in their pin number on the terminal to allow me to proceed. I feel like they could also do this with gift cards except I guess in this case the store is not eating the loss the customer is.
(DIR) Post #Ad0Mfx3pah6Qqgbd7w by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2023-12-18T20:30:51Z
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@briankrebs I'm happy to say that I've been warning people about this method of theft for a few days now.
(DIR) Post #Ad0MgSSMrW9KDlKAAy by Itty53@mstdn.social
2023-12-18T20:49:08Z
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@briankrebs All that effort for a gift card to the Olive Garden.Huh.
(DIR) Post #Ad0Miq0UH1mpq9PzGa by jhwgh1968@chaos.social
2023-12-18T23:22:08Z
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@briankrebs I have personally been burned by thisI only got my money back on it bc the manager was on duty and I'd read this for the first time earlier that day, so I checked within 10 minutesThey still didn't know how to settle the refund with corporate, as in this scam the card's funds were gone already. But they wanted me as a customer enough that they chose to make it their problem and refunded me anywayAt a big box store, this would not have happened
(DIR) Post #Ad0MjPUULTa5tKiwO8 by graand@thecanadian.social
2023-12-19T02:52:52Z
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@briankrebs Gift cards - where you take perfectly good money usable anywhere and trade it for limited functionality plastic limited in where it can be used.
(DIR) Post #Ad0MlGqnRMkxfp2scq by icare4america@freeatlantis.com
2023-12-20T15:29:45Z
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@briankrebs Give Cash!!