Consumer warning: never use prepaid gift cards on the phone

LANCASTER, N.Y. (WIVB) – When the phone rang at Kim Carroccia’s Town of Lancaster home, she was immediately suspicious when the caller claimed he was from DirecTV, and had a great deal for her–a deep discount on a package of new popular channels, and all Kim had to do was pay a few months upfront with an Amazon gift card.
Adding to the skullduggery, when Kim quizzed the caller about her DirecTV account, he had all of her account information, right down to what she owed on her l