Beware of Gift Card Scams
My paralegal, Anne, buzzed me:
“Dennis, you have readers from Palm Springs on the line, a 90-year-old mom and her 55-year-old son. He is trying to prevent her from sending money to scammers using a gift card.”
That call could not have come at a better time, as I had just interviewed Attorney Matthew du Mée, Chief Counsel in the Consumer Litigation Unit of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, about this very issue: gift card scams.
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