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The Nation’s First Law Protecting Against Gift Card Draining Has Passed. Will It Work?
(www.propublica.org)
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Aren't gift cards activated electronically?
Maybe it's just a Canadian thing but if your gift cards are sitting preloaded and tappable like... who the fuck thought that was a good idea.
From the article..
I've experienced this in the past. Luckily the store Winners (a Canadian chain) was good enough to replace the cards.
From the article it sounds like what they're doing is replacing the activation keys on the cards and then putting them back on the shelf, then when the card is activated what really happens is the money is loaded on the card they have.
Each card has an activation code that the cashier scans. They then enter a dollar amount to load on the card. That's how it is supposed to work. What happens in this scam is that thieves shoplift a couple cards. They take one card, for themselves. Then duplicate the activation code from that card, and the activation codes on the other cards which they then secretly put back on the rack at the store. When someone goes to the store and buys an altered card, the cashier scans it and loads the purchaser's money onto the card that the thieves already have.