{"id":766929,"date":"2026-06-28T14:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766929\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:51:15","slug":"video-not-even-your-gift-cards-are-safe-from-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766929\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Not even your gift cards are safe from fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week on Village Media’s ‘Closer Look’ podcast: For savvy criminals looking to rip you off, gift cards have turned out to be the best present ever<\/p>\n

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If recent headlines<\/a> are any indication, gift card scams have become a lucrative enterprise\u00a0for organized criminals.<\/p>\n

On this week\u2019s episode of Village Media’s Closer Look<\/a>\u00a0podcast, we revisit an\u00a0eye-opening conversation we had with Ritesh Kotak<\/a>,\u00a0a lawyer and cybercrime expert.<\/p>\n

He explains how these scammers operate, why gift card fraud is\u00a0on the rise \u2014 and how you can protect yourself as a consumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on Village Media’s ‘Closer Look’ podcast: For savvy criminals looking to rip you off, gift cards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,272701],"class_list":["post-766929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-village-mediagift-card-scamgift-card-fraudscott-sexsmithmichael-friscolanticloser-lookhow-do-gift-card-scams-workhow-does-gift-card-fraud-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}