B.C. man shocked after $700 drained from his Walmart gift cards(cbc.ca)
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B.C. man shocked after $700 drained from his Walmart gift cards
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gift-card-scam-walmart-1.6682353
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gift-card-scam-walmart-1.6682353
> Walmart's gift cards are worthless until customers load them with cash. Once loaded, the company requires shoppers to input a card's hidden security code when using it to make purchases online, but not at self-checkout.
> Wilson says a fraudster could easily take photos of a bunch of the cards' bar codes at Walmart, and then try to buy goods with them at self-checkout at a later date — in the hopes the cards have since been loaded with cash.
> "It's sort of, like, egregious," he said. "All the cards in Walmart are on bulk display. The bar codes are in plain sight."