Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost Photo:Getty Images The longer you wait to use a gift card, the more opportunities scammers have for gift card fraud. They don’t have those protections.”Jeff Greenberg via Getty Images Double-check for tampering when you buy a gift card off an accessible display rack. Experts said if you can avoid buying the first gift card you see in the front of a store’s display rack. Stokes said to look at the gift card activation receipt and see if the number on the gift card matches the number on the receipt. Too often, we leave gift cards lying around, which creates more opportunities for your gift card to get scammed.

Source: Huffington Post March 09, 2023 21:42 UTC