{"id":1088,"date":"2025-01-01T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/gift-card-fraud-html\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T05:07:10","slug":"gift-card-fraud-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/gift-card-fraud-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Card Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Gift Card Fraud<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s becoming an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/chinese-organized-crime-gift-cards-american-retail\">organized crime tactic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Card draining is when criminals remove gift cards from a store display, open them in a separate location, and either record the card numbers and PINs or replace them with a new barcode. The crooks then repair the packaging, return to a store and place the cards back on a rack. When a customer unwittingly selects and loads money onto a tampered card, the criminal is able to access the card online and steal the balance.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>In card draining, the runners assist with removing, tampering and restocking of gift cards, according to court documents and investigators.<\/p>\n<p>A single runner driving from store to store can swipe or return thousands of tampered cards to racks in a short time. \u201cWhat they do is they just fly into the city and they get a rental car and they just hit every big-box location that they can find along a corridor off an interstate,\u201d said Parks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/12\/gift-card-fraud.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gift Card Fraud It\u2019s becoming an organized crime tactic: Card draining is when criminals remove gift cards from a store display, open them in a separate location, and either record the card numbers and PINs or replace them with a new barcode. The crooks then repair the packaging, return to a store and place the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,484,485,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-crime","category-fraud","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}