This is known as a drain scam. It involves criminals going into a store, copying the card number and activation code, then ...

As presents, gift cards have issues, including the $27 billion of unspent gift cards in the U.S. But buying discounted gift ...

you would immediately put the money in your wallet and possibly even spend it the next time you went to the store, says Shelley Hunter, founder of Gift Card Girlfriend, a digital destination that ...