Working at a major big box retailer, my location simply stopped selling Apple gift cards because the rate of fraud was so high. New cards would get shipped in v

Working at a major big box retailer, my location simply stopped selling Apple gift cards because the rate of fraud was so high. New cards would get shipped in via the supply chain and we would just throw them directly into the trash (they're all activated at point of sale, so until then they're merely cardboard as far as the store is concerned, no value lost). Either scammers would attempt to return them empty and pitch a fit until they found a compliant manager willing to pay to make them leave, or innocent customers would buy a card only to find that someone had pilfered the number and drained the balance as soon as it went through point of sale.