NYPD CRIME PREVENTION ALERT BEWARE OF SCAMS USING GREEN DOT MONEYPAK CARDS - greendot.pdf

Green Dot MoneyPak cards themselves are legitimate products when used for the right purposes.  Once purchased at a participating retailer with cash, consumers can use MoneyPaks to reload other prepaid cards, add money to a PayPal account without using a bank account, or make same-day payments to major companies. Because the cards can only be bought with cash, consumers never need to disclose their personal or financial information to a retail cashier or to make a payment.

While many schemes still involve scammers asking for funds to be wired to them, MoneyPaks have the added benefit of the scammer not having to show up at an office to claim the funds. Anyone with the 14-digit number found on the back of the MoneyPak card can drain the card of funds.

In all of these examples, the intended victims are instructed to buy a Green Dot MoneyPak cards, load the amount of the fine or other money owed onto the card and then provide the number on the back of the card to the scammers, who will then drain the funds from the card .

NYPD CRIME PREVENTION ALERT BEWARE OF SCAMS USING GREEN DOT MONEYPAK CARDS - greendot.pdf