Best Buy Credit Card Stolen
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Police are trying to identify a woman who used stolen Best Buy credit card account information to buy two Apple iPad Pros and a MacBook Pro at the Best Buy Store in El Segundo on June 17. Over two days, she used the same information to spend $31,000 at Best Buys in Torrance, Hawthorne, Burbank, Signal Hill and Los Angeles. Anyone with information should contact El Segundo Detective Brandon Browning at 310-524-2277 or bbrowning@elsegundo.org.
Scammers favor gift cards because they are easy for people to find and buy, and they have fewer protections for buyers compared to some other payment options. Scammers can get quick cash, the transaction is largely irreversible, and they can remain anonymous.
Scammers also tell people where to buy the gift cards. In the first nine months of 2021, people who reported losing money buying gift cards mentioned Target stores more than other retailers. Reports suggest that Walmart, Best Buy, CVS, and Walgreens stores are also popular with scammers.
Losses also vary by card brand. Target cards, for example, saw a median reported loss of $2,500 in the first nine months of the year, far higher than other frequently reported cards.7 In addition, 30% of people who paid with a Target card said they lost $5,000 or more.8
2 Gift cards were the most frequently reported payment method for fraud in 2018, 2019, 2020, and in the first nine months of 2021. From January 2018 through September 2021, the second most frequently reported payment method was credit cards. From January 2021 through September 2021, the second most frequently reported payment method was cryptocurrency.
3 From January 2021 through September 2021, 39,263 reports indicating $147.8 million in gift card and reload card payments were submitted, compared to 36,682 reports indicating $115.1 million in reported gift card payments in all of 2020. Earlier year figures for comparison purposes are as follows: 35,323 reports with $100 million reported lost (2019), 32,084 reports with $70.6 million reported lost (2018).
5 From January 2021 through September 2021, 12,239 people reported losing $35.5 million to business impersonators using gift cards, and 7,844 people reported losing $39.6 million to government impersonators using gift cards. Excluding reports that did not indicate a contact method, a phone call was the method of contact in 37% of reports indicating gift cards as the method of payment, followed by email (18%) and social media (16%).
7 The median individual reported losses from January 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 by gift card brand are as follows: Target ($2,500), Walmart ($1,380), Apple ($800), eBay ($600), and Google Play ($500). Median individual losses are based on the total loss reported by the consumer, which often includes more than one gift card purchase.
8 The percentage of reports from January 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 indicating a loss of $5,000 or more by gift card brand are as follows: Target (30%), Apple (13%), Walmart (12%), Google Play (6%), and eBay (3%). Of the $148 million reported lost to gift card scams during this period, $111 million were losses reported by people who reported a loss of $5,000 or more.
The Dalton Police Department is asking for the public's help to identify two men who attempted to use credit cards that were stolen in Dalton to make big ticket purchases in Chattanooga. The men were recorded by store surveillance.
The incident happened last month when a woman accidentally left her car unlocked at the Dalton Golf and Country Club while she played a round of golf. While playing, she was contacted by her bank to confirm that she was using her credit card to make a $604.50 purchase at the Target store in Chattanooga. The victim declined the purchase and went back to her vehicle to check her purse. When she got to her purse, she found that between $500-$800 in cash and three credit cards had been stolen from the vehicle. At that time she was contacted again by her bank to confirm she was attempting to make a $3,232 purchase at the Best Buy location in Chattanooga. The victime also declined that purchase and cancelled her credit cards.
Several credit cards and cash were stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked at Bacon Park Tennis Complex on Skidaway Road on January 13. Soon after the victim learned that one of the stolen credit cards had been immediately used to purchase the electronics at Best Buy.
On Sept. 8, a company email account was hacked and a credit card number was stolen, according to Midland Crime Stoppers. The stolen credit card was used to buy a gaming laptop valued at $2,327.35 from Best Buy with a fake account.
A 34-year-old man tried to buy a $500 Apple gift card with a stolen credit card at the Best Buy in Potomac Yard last month, just minutes after another thief used the same stolen card for a $500 card purchase.
The man was arrested and booked in the Alexandria jail and released for time served on December 9, after being found guilty for disorderly conduct, credit card fraud and receiving a stolen credit card. He was also sentenced to a year of probation for the credit card fraud and disorderly conduct.
Stolen bank cards were used to spend nearly $10,000 dollars within minutes of being stolen in Lynchburg on Wednesday, March 9, 2022.{ }The suspects can be seen leaving the Lynchburg Best Buy in a surveillance photo. (Credit:{ }Bedford County Sheriff's Office)
Stolen bank cards were used to spend nearly $10,000 dollars within minutes of being stolen in Lynchburg on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. The suspects can be seen leaving the Lynchburg Best Buy in a surveillance photo. (Credit: Bedford County Sheriff's Office)
Best Buy's public relations office says when a customer fills out an application to get a store card with them, Best Buy requires a photo ID to fill out the information on paper, or electronically. In that application, the customer writes or enters a social security number.
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A few documents in every person's life should be accounted for: social security cards, Medicare ID, and birth certificates. Should these critical papers fall into the wrong hands, predators can cause immense harm.
Another type of fraud takes place when thieves open a credit card account in your name. According to data from the Insurance Information Institute (III), new credit card account fraud was so prevalent in 2020 that it made up 30 percent of all identity theft complaints that year. Further, various imposter scams were the second most common of all Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaints in 2020, with almost half a million reports. 59ce067264