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Gift Card Hacking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the where-do-I-swipe-it dept.

TheSauce writes "MSNBC has this discussion of how easy it is to hack and jack the contents of those lovely Plastic Gift Cards one sees at most Mass Merchants and Consumer Electronics stores. One retailer notes that the odds of this occuring are about at the level of being pickpocketed."

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  1. HA! by BiggestPOS · · Score: 5, Funny
    According to the Tyler Morning Telegraph, teen-agers used a similar method for using gift cards to steal money from an electronics retailer in Tyler, Texas last December.

    I fucking live in this town. I had no idea a vast conspiracy to defraud Best Buy was happening all around me this whole time. I figured this town had the collective IQ of a walnut. The whole time I lived here I could of been hanging out with sk1pt k1dd13z.

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  2. Re:Wonder which LARGE retailer it could be? by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    They sit right out in the open at the Wal-mart in Windsor, Ontario. Just hanging there in the checkout aisle begging to be taken.

    Tells you something about:
    A) Honesty of Canadians.
    B) Trusting nature of Canadians.
    or C) Intelligence of Canadians.

    I'll let you pick

    AWG

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  3. Re:What are the odds by SCHecklerX · · Score: 5, Funny
    What are the odds of something like this actually hapening? How many thieves are there out there with the technical know how to pull this off, compared to the public at large?

    A lot more now :)