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ICE Director Todd Lyons just revealed ICE recently busted the largest gift card fraud scheme EVER — and that stolen money was being sent DIRECTLY BACK to military units in CHINA
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| April 16, 2026
| Nick Sortor @nicksortor
Posted on 04/16/2026 12:32:20 PM PDT by ransomnote
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! ICE Director Todd Lyons just revealed ICE recently busted the largest gift card fraud scheme EVER — and that stolen money was being sent DIRECTLY BACK to military units in CHINA
It was being carried out by illegal Chinese men who were let in under BIDEN
All military aged, of course.
The scam is fairly simple: these Chinese fraudsters steal barcodes off gift cards from retail stores, place them back on the shelf, and when a shopper buys it, that money is IMMEDIATELY skimmed by CCP operatives who have the numbers in a database
And the American consumer is left with a worthless piece of plastic, unbeknownst to them.
ICE agents are doing HEROIC work — no matter what the Democrats say.
April 16, 2026
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aliens; chicoms; china; crime; criminalaliens; crypto; dhs; giftcardfraud; ice; immigranttruth; moneylaundering; pla; qanon; trustnicksplan
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To: ransomnote
I voted for this!
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posted on
04/16/2026 12:37:19 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
To: ransomnote
‘ICE agents are doing HEROIC work — no matter what the Democrats say.’
I couldn’t agree more!
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posted on
04/16/2026 12:39:49 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: SoConPubbie
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posted on
04/16/2026 12:39:57 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: ransomnote
How do they know when the card has been activated?
5
posted on
04/16/2026 12:41:22 PM PDT
by
Skywise
To: ransomnote
Round em up, ship em out. NEVER to return.
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posted on
04/16/2026 12:42:20 PM PDT
by
lgjhn23
("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
To: ransomnote
“illegal chinese men” who don’t have names apparently. And who was arrested for this? Anyone?
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posted on
04/16/2026 12:42:47 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(I'm a pure-blood!)
To: Skywise
How does one convert gift cards and ITunes cards to cash?
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posted on
04/16/2026 12:49:09 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Deaf Smith
there are exchanges online where people buy gift cards at a discount to face value for cash or crypto
To: Deaf Smith
The gift card scams are explained in detail on YouTube.
There are “buyers” that pay a discounted sum in crypto or venmo/zelle of like .15-.25 percent of the giftcards to the fraudsters, and the buyers go sell the cards or whatever at a discount to others. So the card dollars are sold and or transfered multiple times, and someone gets a piece of the pie at each level.
To: Texas_Jarhead
Then how do those buyers convert the numbers to cash?
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posted on
04/16/2026 1:05:30 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: ransomnote
When I find myself looking for big fraud
Mother Kwan Yin comes to me
Speaking words of gift cards,
Renminbi...
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posted on
04/16/2026 1:07:47 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: ransomnote
All democrats: SO WHAT! WE HATE TRUMP!
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posted on
04/16/2026 1:08:23 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(I'm a pure-blood!)
To: Skywise
The scammers have the card numbers in a program that alerts them when the card is activated and at what amount, and the programs can immediately redeem them, and transfer the card dollars to a wallet or other source.
YouTube anti-scammers explain this in videos, and do good job breathing the process down into understandable segments for non-tech people, so they can avoid being scammed.
To: pacificus
Kitboga
Scammer Payback
Jim Browning - Tech Support Scams
Very good anti-scammer videos
To: ransomnote
Funding a foreign military with stolen money? They should be treated as spies.
To: ransomnote
The Chinese probably learned this grift from the Indians.
To: ransomnote
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posted on
04/16/2026 1:27:51 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Texas_Jarhead
there are exchanges online where people buy gift cards at a discount to face value for cash or crypto I know people who do this using rewards credit cards to fund lavish vacations. Small margins, high volume
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posted on
04/16/2026 1:40:48 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
To: ransomnote
I love the scam baiter guy who gets a scammer screaming “DONT REDEAM IT! DONT REDEAM IT” as he is watching the gift card money disappear
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posted on
04/16/2026 1:53:01 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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