Hot Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2015

Hot Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2015: Green Dot Corporation (GDOT)

Green Dot Corporation operates as a bank holding company. It offers general purpose reloadable prepaid debit cards, and cash loading and transfer services in the United States. The company's products include Green Dot MasterCard, Visa-branded prepaid debit cards, and various co-branded reloadable prepaid card programs; Visa-branded gift cards; and MoneyPak and swipe reload proprietary products that enable cash loading and transfer services through its Green Dot Network. Its Green Dot Network enables consumers to use cash to reload its prepaid debit cards or to transfer cash to any of the company's Green Dot Network acceptance members, including competing prepaid card programs, and other online accounts. The company markets its cards and financial services to banked, underbanked, and unbanked consumers. Green Dot Corporation offers its products and services through retail distributors, including mass merchandisers, drug store and convenience store chains, and supermarket chains; the Internet; and relationships with other businesses. Its prepaid debit cards and prepaid reload services are available to consumers at approximately 60,000 retail locations nationwide and online at greendot.com. The company was formerly known as Next Estate Communications, Inc. and changed its name to Green Dot Corporation in October 2005. Green Dot Corporation was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

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  With all the warnings about scams collecting money from victims using Green Dot (GDOT) Money Paks or other reloadable debit cards, or a money transfer service like Western Union (WU) or MoneyGram, crooks have now turned to faking transactions on a site known for being legit -- PayPal. The Federal Trade Commission is warning con! sumers about a new scam that tries to fool online sellers into using phony PayPal sites. The targets of the scam are typically people selling things online that have significant value, like a car or a boat. After the item is posted for sale, the FTC said an email will come from someone who says they will pay the full price. The conditions: The transaction must be immediate and it payment will be sent by PayPal. "What's really going on? A ruse to steal your personal information, money or merchandise," the FTC said. Two Ways to Scam You In one scenario, if you don't have a PayPal account, the "buyer" will send you a link to set one up. The FTC urges consumers to not follow links sent by email. Anyone who wants to set up a PayPal account can do so by going to PayPal.com. In another scenario, if you do have a PayPal account, the "buyer" says the payment has been sent. You're told to check your email where you'll be notified that not only has the supposed buyer paid, but he accidentally sent way too much money. So, you'll have to send back the extra by using -- wait for it -- a money transfer service like Western Union or MoneyGram. The problem is that no money was sent. So, if you wire money, you won't be sending extra, you'll just be sending your own. What You Should Do Instead The way to check to see if a payment has been made is not through an email confirmation, the FTC said. Before you ship any item or decide you have been paid, don't rely on an email or by following links. Log directly into PayPal to see if the payment is in your account. And, the FTC warned, when anyone claims they've accidentally overpaid you, it should set off

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  Prepaid cards that can be loaded with cash and used like debit cards are the new payment form of choice for scammers, replacing the classic method of asking victims to send money via a wire transfer service like Western Union (WU) or Moneygram (MGI). The most common vehicle is the Green Dot (GDOT) MoneyPak, which is avail! able near! ly everywhere and works just like a wire transfer. Once money is transferred via MoneyPak, it's gone without a trace. But if you've been victimized by a scam, "gone without a trace" is not what you want to hear. You want to hear: "Hi, this is Green Dot customer service. Of course we can help you get your money back." And that, according to the FBI, is just what a new crop of scam websites are doing: Pretending to provide customer service for MoneyPak, with phone numbers that actually lead to con artists aiming to re-scam the victims of earlier scams. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reports that it has received a large number of complaints about this new fraud technique. Typically, the victim is either someone trying to get a refund of what's on their card, or someone seeking help after they've been robbed in a scam involving a MoneyPak card, the FBI said. Seeking Refunds or Help, but Being Victimized Again In the refund version of the scam, the FBI said the crooks will ask for both the MoneyPak card number and either a credit card or checking account number, supposedly so a refund can be processed. Instead, the crooks now have all the information they need to use the victim's account to load the card, and then drain it. The victim variation targets those who have already had money stolen from them using a MoneyPak card. The phony customer service representative will explain to the caller that to get the lost funds put back on the card, they'll have to first load the same amount of cash on the card again from their own account, because "reloading is the only way to process the refund." "In most complaints, victims are gi

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