Don't give a scammer the gift of your Christmas funds this season. Instead, stay aware and keep these tips in mind. The card draining scam leaves gift card purchasers with an empty balance despite ...

Just for you to try again and repeat the cycle. Highly recommend giving someone cash over using this as a “gift card”. They seem like they don’t want to let you use the money… Weird.

In the case of the holiday season, getting anybody on your list a gift card is a great bet. These days, pretty much every retailer out there offers gift cards to customers, making it easy to snag ...

If you know the tricks to watch out for, you can outsmart the crooks. Here’s what happens: you see a gift card on the store rack and you take it to the counter and load it with the dollar amount ...

As the holiday season approaches, a familiar yet unwelcome threat returns—not the green Grinch of storybooks, but a more elusive threat to consumers and retailers alike: gift card fraud.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore recently signed the Gift Card Scams Prevention Act of 2024, creating the country’s first law aimed at curbing a rising form of gift card fraud called card draining.