Gift card scams can occur when scammers trick people into using gift cards to send money for fake bills, emergencies, or prizes. Or what’s called “card draining,” or stealing numbers from poorly packaged cards, is one of the costliest and most common consumer scams (Courtesy/Robbie Sequeira, Stateline)


Scams are nothing new – fraud has existed as long as human greed. What changes are the tools.

Scammers thrive on exploiting vulnerable, uninformed users, and they adapt…