Last Friday on 10/10, I woke up to dozens of Paypal emails saying my account features are paused. You see, last year when you could do PPBP to BoA, all you had to do was create a new account with a random name, address and phone number and was able to fire off a payment […]

A guy I know redeemed for some Ebay gift cards a month or so ago and he sold it to a GC aggregator, who a few weeks later told him that one of the cards had no balance. You see, Ebay gift cards, are basically just 16 digits with no pin, so yes any random […]

I truly have a love/hate relationship with this portal. Right now, I HATE their redemption options. The only bright side is that some good ones do come back for a brief stint before they go dark again. It’s almost like they have a limited # of high value redemptions before they make you redeem for […]

I got this email this morning and let me tell you, this put me in a bad mood for a few hours. I also thought this was karma from yesterday’s post. When I finally dug into the accounts that got these emails, it turns out these accounts were already dead. They died 6 months ago […]

I just recently noticed that the Capital One email offers now say ‘Single-use’ in the upper right corner. See below screenshot: I went back through my emails and it seems they started doing this back on probably July 1, 2025. Here’s an email back in June. Look at the upper right. SO FAR, it doesn’t […]