Lawmakers pressure businesses regarding gift card scams

  • in Washington, D.C., displays signs at its checkout counters to warn consumers about gift card fraud. Barbara Barrett/Stateline
When Denise Brown peruses the tightly packed gift card display at her local store in Harlem, New York, she sees the perfect present for her grandson: a Sony PlayStation gift card. Others, acting in bad faith, see these gift card displays as easy money in one of the country’s costliest and most common consumer scams — card draining. Scammers drain a gift card by obtaining the bar code, CVV…

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