Have you ever come across such a juicy offer that makes you doubt? That voice in your head telling you, "this is too good to be true"? Well, it happened to me, and it almost cost me an arm and a leg along with a good scare with Amazon! Let me tell you, a few years ago, when P2P was all the rage and Paxful was the star, I discovered a gold mine (or so I thought): you could get Amazon gift cards at a ridiculously low price. A bargain that not even on Black Friday! My eyes sparkled, my wallet dreamed, and my brain was already calculating the profits. I dove in, created my ad on Airtm, and off I went selling Gift Cards! I bought them cheap on Paxful and sold them a bit more expensive on Airtm, and the business was booming. I had my regular suppliers, some pros who even sent me pictures of the scratched cards and even of the store receipts. Everything seemed super transparent. There was just one strange thing: the seller always insisted that the buyer be "online" to redeem the code instantly! I, naive, thought: "What great service, they want the customer not to wait." Pfff, you see me now! Things got serious when I started selling to a friend who owns a mobile phone store. Imagine, I sold him up to $5,000 in gift cards! He used that extra balance to buy mobile phones on Amazon at dream prices and then sold them for a good profit in his store. We were the dynamic duo, until one day, the phone rang, and my friend's voice was fuming. Amazon closed my account! They are asking for proof of the cards, the receipts, everything! My heart skipped a beat. I had everything neatly saved, the photos, the receipts... I sent them confidently, thinking this was a misunderstanding. How wrong I was! Amazon did not recognize the origin of those cards, and in the end, my friend lost his $5,000. Just as you read! And me? I was left with a problem the size of a house. From that $5,000, my profit was just a small commission, and I had to start paying my friend in installments. A nightmare! That's when I started to investigate thoroughly. And I discovered the truth, a truth that chilled my blood: Apparently, there were organized groups, mafias, so to speak, that were said to be from India and other places, who had found a way to generate Amazon codes randomly. They "tested" them super fast on Amazon, and if one "hit" and showed balance, meaning it matched a real card that hadn't been redeemed yet, they put it up for sale instantly! It had to be that way because that fraudulent code was a "temporary copy"; at any moment, the real code would be redeemed by its true owner, or Amazon would detect it. And my friend fell victim to that! The "fake" code was applied, but when the real one showed up, the Amazon account sank! Now, every time I see a gift card on Gameflip or any P2P platform for a price lower than its real value, my skin crawls. Because, who in their right mind sells something for less than it’s worth, unless there is something fishy behind it? My story is proof that sometimes, incredible bargains come with a very high price. So, friends, beware of those offers that seem too good to be true! In the crypto and P2P world, caution and research are your best shields.
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