We have signs in our stores and share general safety tips with our team members so they can stay alert and help guests as best as they can at our registers. "We are aware of the prevalence of gift card scams and take them very seriously. I asked Target, Walmart and Amazon about their policies. Rick says Target just sent him a $100 e-gift card giving him all of the money he paid. "I just put money in a card and let them do it themselves," he said. It's safer to buy a gift card online, send an e-gift card, or just go old school and avoid the issue altogether as one shopper told me. If you are victim, go back to where you bought the card with proof of purchase and balance.Īnd contact the business on the gift card. If it's been tampered with like his card, scammers used a permanent glue so part of the packaging sticks and peels off. Rick says he was told the card should be able to separate easily from the packaging. If the cover or access code feel rough or don't align, it could be tampered with. When he went back to find "which one is the $50 card" they scanned and told him they were "tampered with and they showed a $0.00 dollar balance."
He says he bought Target gift cards "2 $25 and 1 $50." Rick let me know it just happened to him. With the gift card industry expected to reach $188 billion in the U.S. The scammers can then access activity knowing when the card is sold and loaded. They replace the code covers with stickers, like those we found sold cheaply online. "They said the money wasn't on it or anything so frustrating because I had so many things in my cars," she said.Īuthorities say scammers are going through card racks, scratching off the codes and taking down numbers. Some people are finding out their new gift card has zero balance.Ī Phoenix shopper told me it happened to her. PHOENIX - They are easy, desirable and will likely be the most popular holiday gift.
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