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2. Apple agrees to settle lawsuit over iTunes gift card scam - AOL

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   Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of knowingly letting scammers exploit its gift cards, and keep stolen funds for itself. According to a filing on Wednesday in federal ...

3. Fraud alert: Scammers get victims to pay with iTunes gift cards

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   Right now, the popular iTunes gift card is the payment method of choice for many swindlers. Fraud alert: Scammers get victims to pay with iTunes gift cards Skip to main content

4. Apple gift card scam leads to $1.8 million settlement. Are ...

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   Here’s what to know.

5. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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   An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars ...

6. Litigation involving Apple Inc. - Wikipedia

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   The Owens complaint alleged that Apple wrongfully marketed, distributed, and sold iTunes gift cards and songs through its online iTunes store, while representing that consumers could use the gift cards to purchase songs for US$0.99 a song and then, after such gift cards were purchased, raised the price on certain songs to $1.29 on April 7, 2009 ...

7. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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   The preferred method of payment in a technical support scam is through gift cards. Gift cards are favoured by scammers because they are readily available to buy and have less consumer protections in place that could allow the victim to reclaim their money back. Additionally, the usage of gift cards as payment allows the scammers to extract ...

8. iTunes gift card scams are flourishing - AOL

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   iTunes gift cards have become a common tool for online scammers to wring money out of victims, according to new warnings from Apple and federal authorities.

9. Carding (fraud) - Wikipedia

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   Carding (fraud) Carding refers not only to payment card based fraud, but also to a range of related activities and services. Carding is a term of the trafficking and unauthorized use of credit cards. [1] The stolen credit cards or credit card numbers are then used to buy prepaid gift cards to cover up the tracks. [2]