Google Play cards are now the currency of scammers – but do stores care?

By Opinion: Ben Langford
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:04am, first published January 9 2019 - 2:17pm
BONUS PRIZE: Spend all your money getting scammed on Google cards at Coles, and we'll give you this nice flyer warning about scams using Google cards. Picture: Ben Langford.
BONUS PRIZE: Spend all your money getting scammed on Google cards at Coles, and we'll give you this nice flyer warning about scams using Google cards. Picture: Ben Langford.

The Christmas cards were a bit skinny on cash this year for one family I know, on account of one member having lost $2000 on Google Play cards, under instructions from a thief.

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