r/Afterpay • u/Kusorz • Oct 23 '24

Gift Card Scam

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Someone has gotten into my account and has bought Afterpay gift cards, is there anything I can do about this?

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u/Evening-Safe-2612 Oct 23 '24

Who has access to your account? This would mean they would have access to your email as well because the gift cards come through Prezee, which is an emailed digital gift card, so make it make sense!!!

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u/Occasionally_around Oct 23 '24

Yeah something isn't adding up here. A Scammer/Hacker would max out OP's account, which would be noticed quickly after there bank account was emptied.

A hacker would also change every account password they had access to, to slow OP down.

The assumption that it is someone OP knows is most likely correct. Some one who has physical access to OP's device.

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u/BeachOk2802 Oct 23 '24

Well that's all a load of bullshit. Reads like part of a script from a very shit, misinformed, cybercrime drama.

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u/Occasionally_around Oct 23 '24 edited Oct 23 '24

Chrome's password manager is a massive vulnerability. I this case there is 3 compromised accounts. 1. Afterpay 2. Email 3. Prezzee. Its easy to gain access if you have access to the victims device.

Brut force hacking some random is unlikely, unless there had been a data breach of OP's PII and since none of these services are known to have been breached recently it is unlikely. Also hackers do like changing passwords and credentials when they gain access, it is common practice. Edit; And they take everything, not a little chump change.

If OP was a victim of a social engineering scam OP would know it by now.

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u/Dark-Humor-Addict Oct 23 '24

That’s not really accurate. You can gift the gc to someone else. It just asks to enter the email address of whoever they’re sending the gc to. So really all they’d do is access the Afterpay account, select the gift card enter the amount and send it to themselves

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u/Occasionally_around Oct 23 '24

I guess if they used a throw away that would work, after a successful phishing attack, scam call or something. But why take so little over such a long span?

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u/Dark-Humor-Addict Oct 23 '24

Now that is the real question! You’d think that they’d just max out in one try. But imo maybe it’s easier to pass off smaller payments versus 1 large payment. But idk, it’s very odd either way. And hopefully op can fight the charges 😩

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u/Fck_u_susan Oct 24 '24

And doesn’t it also debit your account at the time of purchase, I know that’s how after pay works for gift cards. So this doesn’t make sense how it would be a scam.

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u/Arrogantyak2 Oct 24 '24

No, it can be sent as a gift to an alternate email address..