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Simon Dean did a 14 minute break down: Is This Australia’s Most Easily Hacked Gift Card? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBarXDL23hs https://www.youtube.com/wa

by defrost 11mo ago

Simon Dean did a 14 minute break down: Is This Australia’s Most Easily Hacked Gift Card? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBarXDL23hs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBarXDL23hs of how thieves were abusing gift cards by imaging them in stores, waiting until purchased and "holding" value, then extracting that value with a little bit of cracking bad security

eek2121 11mo ago
I would not have believed for a second if stores here in my location in the U.S. did not recently begin locking up gift cards in a cage. I thought the move was quite odd, until I remembered a story that I read (possibly here?) about specific types of imaging that could see the pin behind the scratch off part. Originally I assumed it was due to customer education/fraud, however no additional signage is posted at the stores doing this. Second thought was people must think these cards are already activated, however there is tons of text stating these things are only activated at POS. The retailers I mentioned are nationwide. However, they've only recently began to do this, and only in a few locations that I am aware of.
- javier2 11mo ago
  For the past year, single chinese tourists have travelled around the country emptying stored of nearly any kind of gift card. Its some kind of money laundering scheme I think? So recently stores in affected areas started locking up gift cards, though its hard to stop as buying all gift cards isnt really illegal
  - pjc50 11mo ago
    I wonder if that's for bypassing Chinese restrictions on getting money out of the country.
  - gruez 11mo ago
    >For the past year, single chinese tourists have travelled around the country emptying stored of nearly any kind of gift card. Source?
    - javier2 11mo ago
      European country, it was a fairly big news story this summer
- endgame 11mo ago
  https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ This guy purchased a gift card which turned out to be dodgy, and Apple locked his entire account. So there's definitely some kind of shenanigans possible with the current supply chain.
rpigab 11mo ago
And I thought I was being paranoid when I redeemed Steam gift cards before even exiting the store.

by defrost 11mo ago

eek2121 11mo ago

I would not have believed for a second if stores here in my location in the U.S. did not recently begin locking up gift cards in a cage. I thought the move was quite odd, until I remembered a story that I read (possibly here?) about specific types of imaging that could see the pin behind the scratch off part. Originally I assumed it was due to customer education/fraud, however no additional signage is posted at the stores doing this. Second thought was people must think these cards are already activated, however there is tons of text stating these things are only activated at POS. The retailers I mentioned are nationwide. However, they've only recently began to do this, and only in a few locations that I am aware of.

javier2 11mo ago
For the past year, single chinese tourists have travelled around the country emptying stored of nearly any kind of gift card. Its some kind of money laundering scheme I think? So recently stores in affected areas started locking up gift cards, though its hard to stop as buying all gift cards isnt really illegal
- pjc50 11mo ago
  I wonder if that's for bypassing Chinese restrictions on getting money out of the country.
- gruez 11mo ago
  >For the past year, single chinese tourists have travelled around the country emptying stored of nearly any kind of gift card. Source?
  - javier2 11mo ago
    European country, it was a fairly big news story this summer
endgame 11mo ago
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ This guy purchased a gift card which turned out to be dodgy, and Apple locked his entire account. So there's definitely some kind of shenanigans possible with the current supply chain.

rpigab 11mo ago

And I thought I was being paranoid when I redeemed Steam gift cards before even exiting the store.