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When Denise Brown peruses the tightly packed gift card display at her local CVS in Harlem, New York, she sees the perfect present for her grandson: a Sony PlayStation gift card. Others, acting in bad faith, see these gift card displays as easy money in one of the country’s costliest and most common consumer scams: […] The post As consumers lose millions to gift card scams, lawmakers pressure businesses appeared first on Nebraska Examiner.

When Denise Brown peruses the tightly packed gift card display at her local CVS in Harlem, New York, she sees the perfect present for her grandson: a Sony PlayStation gift card. Others, acting in bad faith, see these gift card displays as easy money in one of the country’s costliest and most common consumer scams: […] The post As consumers lose millions to gift card scams, lawmakers pressure businesses appeared first on Alaska Beacon.

In 2023, card draining and other gift card-related fraud made up $217 million of the record-high $10 billion lost from scams nationwide.

Caregivers spend an average of 26% of their income helping their loved ones, according to the American Association of Retired Persons. And those caregivers are calling on Nebraska senators to ease their burden.

The Fairbury Community Center held a re-opening ceremony on Tuesday afternoon.

A bill was proposed to shorten early and mail-in voting in Nebraska by almost two weeks, but no one testified in favor.