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Gift cards are being used in scams as a form of payment though their balances are also being stolen outright by bots.
As customers shop online, gift card scams have gone up substantially. Scammers are even using WebCrawler bots to extract money, which means people might be gifting cards with zero balance
New data from Imperva Research Labs sees the highest percentage of bad bot traffic (25.6 percent) since the company began reporting traffic in 2014.
40.8% of internet traffic in 2020 was not humanBad bot traffic increased 6.2% and now represents more than one quarter of all website requestsBots disguised as mobile browser users rose to 28.1%