According to Reuters on November 6th, a federal judge in California dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Google, which accused the technology giant of profiting from fraudulent Google Play gift cards. In this case, a woman named Judy May claimed to have been deceived by someone impersonating a government agent, who convinced her to purchase Google Play gift cards in exchange for federal grants. After she purchased the gift cards and provided the codes on the back of the cards to the scammer, the scammer used these codes for shopping. May believes that if Google had warnings about such scams on the packaging, she would not have bought these gift cards; she argues that Google should refund the stolen funds and the company should be held accountable for the commissions it retained from purchases made by the scammer using the stolen gift card codes. However, the judge ruled that May failed to prove that Google was responsible for her financial losses or that the company knew it was receiving stolen funds. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data, Americans lost 0.217 billion dollars due to such scams in 2023. However, this figure only represents reported cases, and actual losses could be much higher.