The WORST Gift Card Scams Explained 😱 (Here's how you can avoid them)

Gift card scammers are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars, and trying to take YOUR MONEY! From anything like pretending to be the IRS, to accusing you of a crime and arresting you - here's how gift card scams work, and how to avoid them.
00:26 Cost of Gift Card Scams
00:43 Scam #1: Posing as Government or IRS official
01:40 Scam #2: Friend or Family Emergency
02:04 Scam #3: Posing as a Retailer Offering Deals
02:50 Scam #4: Fake Tech Support
03:31 Scam #5: Romance Scams
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[@0bits_1]

For anybody wondering how these Scammers actually make money off of this. They sell the Gift Cards/Gift Card Accounts on the black market for actual cash. To a decent person, selling a Gift Card worth $100 for $80 seems like a loss, but to a Scammer, this is pure profit as they won't have originally paid ANYTHING for the Gift Card. I felt the need to mention this here as - to my knowledge - she doesn't mention this aspect in the video.

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

The PROBLEM is the gift cards, by making ID a requirement at every STAGE this could be STOPPED systemically.

[@jamesedwards3923]

Tracible money? So basic right to earnings and privacy. I have an alternative. Put the cards in locked locations accessible only to the employees. Totalitarian actions only imprison and control people. No thanks.

[@henrymiranda3564]

Paypal and aple scamer waiting victms

[@marouabendriouich223]

They scammed me with $600 gift card, thinking they were really an official website. It was a bad experience, and new to me.

[@matematicarka]

how did it happen, if you dont mind sharing?

[@_sugxrchan_4247]

What happened?

[@MLK.PaNoRaMa]

I still didn't get it if they got the gift card they can only use the value of the card, what else can happen?!

[@videorocketzmillar007milla5]

When scamners call and ask you to urchase a gift card for: to PAY for a lottery you didn't enter, a IRS tax you need to pay before you go to jail, etc. Ask them WHATS MY NAME ? Usually they don't have your name and if they do, say where do I live? THEY NEVER KNOW BECAUSE THEY GET YOYR NAME ONLINE. Thats all they have. They cannot cancel your Social Security number thats impossible. HANG UP!!!! NEVER GIVE ANY INFO AS U WILL BE ON THEIR SUCKER LIST.

[@Shubham-ys3mi]

I found one in dating app Stared to asking steam wallet card Bank account details I just blocked

[@davesimpson7015]

I had an escort ask for the last four digits of the code to verify the amount of money on the card can she get the money off the card with only the last four digits of the code?

[@fctryoffetsh39]

Wow that means if we can't meet someone you can't believe anybody because everybody is a liar,think of it this sucks,and I noticed someone always asks for a certain card,this means if we don't meet then you don't treat

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

I just received a call telling me if I purchased the gift card to receive my winnings

[@user-dc2ie1kk5u]

Them is try it with sick disturbing conversation

[@GoodNews-px2im]

Great video. Is that your actual/given name?

[@Barryobamasadick]

This is most always an inside job of store you bought it at .the one im talking about is when you buy a legit gift card at store and dont check immediately to check the number on reciept matches the number and amount you purchased . Inside store scammers have put it back on shelf and know when its bought so they can register it to a name and steal the value of the card . Because they already scratched and replaced the coating

[@fctryoffetsh39]

The first will never call you

[@adriandiaconescu2093]

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ it just happened to me to meet somebody another Website and ask me for card and I thought something was wrong so I just block her

[@mohawkrider9691]

Allah loves you for your support towards humanity

[@AJIKOFFICIAL302]

Wow 😯

[@indaycharing8818]

I got scammed worth of $1000 gift cards

[@meletaufa]

Samsung manager has been telling me to buy 500 gift card than they will deliver my 800000 US dollars up until now saw your message but until now haven't bought them I need your advice please thanks

[@Ry-jl2gg]

What about celebrities asking for a gift card or asking you to get a membership card, which I didn't fall for it

[@grebeldance]

Please explain

[@grebeldance]

Anthony Hopkins keeps asking me for one. From his verified page but on Chat

[@arifurrahman7834]

​@@grebeldance😮

[@NDIFREKEGOODNESS]

@@grebeldance get it for him it's real

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

The guy has been calling overall week consecutively

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

I get regular calls from Samsung

[@monixniye-qv7vz]

Hi, somebody is asking me for gift cards receipt, so his he are scammers

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

And an I phone 13

[@eamonmccormack9541]

Hi can i ask you some one give money from from usa

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

They say you have been randomly selected by Samsung lottery

[@user-wu8dn6sx8d]

You wanna make more Bread hit up the name above ⬆️ ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ he gonna help you make more ..

[@matematicarka]

i still dont get it so i buy a gift card and give the code to someone without them paying meanything for it?how does that even work?

[@loveyoursign2923]

There's an extra bar code sticker over the bar code. It's messed up because after you buy the card your money is gone

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

They try to full your head with plenty lies

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

They say they are at the airport with your package

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

And will reach you soon

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

They are notorious

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

It's not you alone

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

I'm so broke I could hardly stand

[@Commoncrew-dg3rp]

Can I someone help me I am talking to A girl for a little.while and she asked for a PlayStation gift card for valentines day so she can give it to her friend but it is only.10 bucks

[@_sugxrchan_4247]

If I gave my address Am I in danger?

[@GCP4]

Is not dangers about your life but it's dangerous about your cards

[@Mico_Mad_]

@@GCP4 this guy on offer up sent me 200 for 100 worth of a pair of shoes and is telling me to go buy an apple gift card so offer up can send me the money through their because my cashapp wasn’t yet a business account. What does that mean?

[@lpifer24]

I have this attorney tells me to pay him in gift cards and I will receive 200,000 dollars. Anybody else gone through this?

[@NDIFREKEGOODNESS]

Yes it's real they will really pay you I can also pay you if you could Trust me and let's deal 🤝

[@Trey0100]

My nan got scammed today and she lost $2000

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

Buy the card and show them back and front

[@AdrianMartinez-lf2gh]

Too broke to get scammed 😂

[@DoctorVerse1]

😂

[@SajidKhan-jv3iz]

I was asked by someone to buy the razor gold gift card and I have given the picture of the gift card.. if they hacked it.. then I will loose Only the gift card amount or they can hack into my bank account also.. I have given my phone no also

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

You need to purchase a gift card to receive your winnings

[@AgnesChitsiga-cs3wy]

I got a message that I won an iPhone 13 and I should buy a gift card

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

$200usd gift card

[@adriandiaconescu2093]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋🏻👍🏻

[@anyonename8067]

Solution ------- DO NOT BUY ANY CARDS!

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

You won 8000000usd

[@DaveBlackman-xf9ro]

As we speak these guy's are calling me consecutively asking for gift card