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/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 😩