Last month, I wrote about how scammers were tampering with Amazon gift cards at a Safeway in Seattle. Well, today a reader in the Bay Area told me she bought a tampered Home Depot gift card at Safeway. Here’s what she wrote: It’s a photo copy of a real GC. If you just glance […]
For the longest time now, you’ve been able to pay a certain bank with debit cards. Sure, you could use any debit card, but there was always a risk if you used too many different debit cards, there’d be a shutdown risk. That’s where the Paypal business debit card came into play. For some reason, […]
On Monday, I wrote about my issue with some hacked Amazon gift cards at Safeway. I tried to get help from Amazon, but they were of no use saying that because I didn’t buy it from them, then they couldn’t help me, which we all know makes no sense since they blocked my account thinking […]
Let’s say there’s a store that sells widgets that will take payment in candy corn and gummy bears. Sometimes when you buy something and only have a few gummy bears on you, you can pay in candy corn combined with gummy bears. If for some reason you didn’t want the item and returned it later, the […]
I got the dreaded certified letter from First Tech on October 1 basically telling me to stop my manufactured spend activity. Others who have gotten this in the past have gotten it because they would have received an internal FT transfer and then pay their credit cards with the incoming funds, which in FT’s eyes […]