{"id":1202,"date":"2010-09-25T06:59:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2010-09-25T06:59:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T13:59:02","slug":"wal-mart-scammed-out-of-11k-of-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart scammed out of $11k of gift cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storefrontbacktalk.com\/social-networks\/ohio-wal-mart-giftcard-thief-gets-11k-just-for-the-asking\/\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> has little relevance for gift card consumers, it is just too ridiculous to ignore.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Earlier  this month, a man called a 24-hour Wal-Mart in Columbus, Ohio, at 1 AM  and told an associate he was with Wal-Mart\u2019s IT department. The caller  instructed the associate to activate gift cards, read him those card  numbers and then scratch off the tape on the back of the cards so she  could tell him the authorization codes, police said. And the associate  obliged. Hours\u2014and more than $11,000 in online fraud\u2014later, the store  realized it had been had.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this story has little relevance for gift card consumers, it is just too ridiculous to ignore. Earlier this month, a man called a 24-hour Wal-Mart in Columbus, Ohio, at 1 AM and told an associate he was with Wal-Mart\u2019s IT department. The caller instructed the associate to activate gift cards, read him those card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}