Whether you've received a Vanilla Gift Card as a gift or bought it yourself as a way to pay for transactions without using your personal credit or debit card, at some point you may want to use it for ...

So, you’re planning on giving some gift cards this holiday season? Well, be careful, because what you end up buying may not be what you think. Gift card draining is a scam that has wreaked havoc among ...

A New Yorker represented by Wolf Popper had argued that he had bought Visa Vanilla gift cards, believing that the payments giant had taken measures to protect its cards from widespread card draining ...

New York (CNN) — A Georgia-based company that makes many popular gift cards faces a lawsuit in California alleging it failed to take precautions to prevent scammers from draining gift cards of their ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore recently signed the Gift Card Scams ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – There was nothing sweet about a suburban woman's experience with a gift card on the Magnificent Mile. The Vanilla Visa card would not work, even though she had just bought it with cash ...

The Grinch is having himself a scammy little Christmas — and he tried doing it on my dime. You see, I’ve been robbed. Thankfully, the perp wasn’t a ne’er-do-well on the subway or a stickup kid on the ...

A woman claimed that after she was allegedly scammed by a CVS Visa gift card. CVS then accused her of being the scammer. TikToker @lovem_or_losem alleged that when she placed $100 on a Visa Vanilla ...

Looking for a quick way to load money onto a temporary card for online shopping at places like Amazon? One popular option is Vanilla Gift Cards. The company offers electronic gift cards (Visa and ...