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FTC Data Show Major Increase in Gift Cards As Scam Payment Method

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$148 million reported lost in first nine months of 2021, more than all of 2020

A new Federal Trade Commission data spotlight shows that in the first nine months of 2021, consumers reported losing $148 million in scams where gift cards were used as the form of payment. That amount is more than was reported in all of 2020.

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