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A heads up for you buying Christmas gift cards.....
....even for boating related purchases.
I received this email today from a friend. The scam is real so be careful when purchasing gift cards: ============================================ Yes this is true. Here is the link that has the information to back up this email: http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/giftcard.asp "Well the crooks have found a way to rob you of your gift card balance. If you buy Christmas Gift Cards from a display rack that has various store cards, you may become a victim of theft. Crooks are now jotting down the card numbers in the store, and then wait a few days and call to see how much of a balance THEY have on the card. Once they find the card is "activated", they go online and start shopping. You may want to purchase your Christmas gift card from a customer service person, where they do not have the Christmas Gift Cards viewable to the public. Please share this with all your family and friends. ============= Those who buy *Holiday* or *xmas* gift cards need not worry and should disregard this warning. ;-) |
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A heads up for you buying Christmas gift cards.....
JimH wrote:
...even for boating related purchases. I received this email today from a friend. The scam is real so be careful when purchasing gift cards: ============================================ Yes this is true. Here is the link that has the information to back up this email: http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/giftcard.asp "Well the crooks have found a way to rob you of your gift card balance. If you buy Christmas Gift Cards from a display rack that has various store cards, you may become a victim of theft. Crooks are now jotting down the card numbers in the store, and then wait a few days and call to see how much of a balance THEY have on the card. Once they find the card is "activated", they go online and start shopping. You may want to purchase your Christmas gift card from a customer service person, where they do not have the Christmas Gift Cards viewable to the public. Please share this with all your family and friends. ============= Those who buy *Holiday* or *xmas* gift cards need not worry and should disregard this warning. ;-) If you read the Snopes article you would see they really do not consider this a big deal, for this scam to be a problem the card has to be able to be used when the "CARD IS NOT PRESENT" and the card does not have additional security info. I personally don't know why anyone gives gift cards, cash is so much easier to spend. But for those who worry about non issues and other "problems" such as "xmas", it gives them one more thing to worry about. The abbreviation of "Xmas" for Christmas, long reviled by many conservative and Low Church Christians, is not nearly as blasphemous as many contend. Rather than a sacrilegious removal of "Christ" from Christmas and replacing him with an unknown, as some claim, the "Xmas" abbreviation has a long history in the church. In Greek, the language in which the New Testament was first written, "chi" (c or C), which is almost identical to the Roman alphabet "X," is the first letter of the word "Christ" (cristoV, or as it would be written in older manuscripts, CRISTOS). In fact, the symbol of the fish in the early church came from using the first letter of several titles used for Jesus (Jesus Christ Son of God Savior) that when combined spelled the Greek word for fish (icquV, ichthus). In the early days of printing when typesetting was done by hand and was very tedious and expensive, abbreviations were common. The church began to use the abbreviation "X" for the word "Christ" in religious publications. From there, the abbreviation moved into general use in newspapers and other publications, and "Xmas" became an accepted way of printing "Christmas." see http://www.cresourcei.org/symbols/xmasorigin.html |
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A heads up for you buying Christmas gift cards.....
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote: The abbreviation of "Xmas" for Christmas, long reviled by many conservative and Low Church Christians, is not nearly as blasphemous as many contend. Rather than a sacrilegious removal of "Christ" from Christmas and replacing him with an unknown, as some claim, the "Xmas" abbreviation has a long history in the church. In fact, the symbol of the fish in the early church came from using the first letter of several titles used for Jesus (Jesus Christ Son of God Savior) that when combined spelled the Greek word for fish (icquV, ichthus). In that case, allow me to be the first to wish you a Merry Fishmas. :-) |
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A heads up for you buying Christmas gift cards.....
Chuck Gould wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote: The abbreviation of "Xmas" for Christmas, long reviled by many conservative and Low Church Christians, is not nearly as blasphemous as many contend. Rather than a sacrilegious removal of "Christ" from Christmas and replacing him with an unknown, as some claim, the "Xmas" abbreviation has a long history in the church. In fact, the symbol of the fish in the early church came from using the first letter of several titles used for Jesus (Jesus Christ Son of God Savior) that when combined spelled the Greek word for fish (icquV, ichthus). In that case, allow me to be the first to wish you a Merry Fishmas. :-) Thank you for your kind wishes. and Happy Holidays to you. |
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A heads up for you buying Christmas gift cards.....
Every time someone says "Happy Holidays," an elf is eviscerated.
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