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Social Media Outreach - Gift Card Purchase Scam Reports & Reviews (1)

- Brooklyn, NY, USA • Feb 05, 2024

A duo of an entrepreneurial uncle and niece conned me into doing a favor which involved purchasing Apple and Steam gift cards. There were a total of 12 cards purchased on my credit cards: 2 Apple ones, $300 for the uncle and $200 for the niece. There was also 10 Steam cards, all valued at $30, so a total of $300 also for the niece, as the uncle told me he would compensate me for doing a favor for the niece so that I could possibly work for his company or do a business deal (I’m newly self employed). I’ve never had to do this before but this happened yesterday, and I noticed they immediately stopped messaging me (thankfully) once they got their thing out of me.

I have all the cards, plus receipt from Best Buy ($500 for the niece) and a digital receipt from Apple ($300) for the uncle. Instead of working on my own business this duo kept pestering me and lured me into doing this when I was very stressed and tired trying to start my own legitimate business.

The 11 cards, Apple and Steam (10), $500 in value were on my personal Chase credit card. The one card for the uncle, $300 was on my new Chase business credit card.

I am not one to buy gift cards ever really, and usually just buy physical merchandise so I didn’t know this was a common scam until I looked it up on Google today.

The messaging first started with “****** ****** ******** sometime around the end of 2023 and I was already wary.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553775872392&mibextid=ZbWKwL

This person behind this account eventually befriended me and kept urging me to speak to her uncle who was a business man. I finally did so over the weekend and that’s when they both suddenly started asking for favors. They were bothering me a lot and honestly was sketched out, but I wanted them to not harass me or even stalk me so I bought the cards really hesitantly.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075258340892&mibextid=ZbWKwL

https://www.instagram.com/robert_stallon_7?igsh=cnNpZXY1dXNnNHBm

I have receipts. I did not use these cards. They were given to these two individuals. Now they have stopped messaging me but now I know it is a scam so reporting it <24 hours after it happened.

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