One thing wrong that this guy is saying is to check the card after you buy it. Nooo do not do that! When you are shopping for the gift card, and you’re standing there debating on which one to buy… LOOK AT IT THEN AND INSPECT IT BEFORE GOING TO THE REGISTER!!!! The reason I am saying this is bc… when you purchase the gift card, the money goes to the card! And “THE STORE CAN NOT REFUND YOU THE MONEY!” The cashiers may or may not tell you that. So… It’s easy to see if it’s been tampered with. If you want to tell the cashier, “Hey I want to inspect this gift card before you ring it up to be sure it’s not been tampered with” They will be happy to do that bc even if you don’t get the gift card, it’s of no loss to the store, maybe a penny of that! But don’t go buying a gift card then go back in and say “ I need to return this bc of blah blah blah” Bc they can’t. And retail store personnel are SO BUSY. And you’ll cause a traffic jam at the register with that dumb stuff so please be looking at it before you buy it.

Thanks for the info. I'm 73 and like to stay informed. Too many evil people in the world.

Someone can go into a store and just take gift cards off the rack in stacks. There is no monetary value to them so no one really looks twice. They can take it home, do what they have to then bring it back to same store and put it back on the rack.

My first time using the vanilla Visa gift card was March 2023. My niece sent me two $100 cards but after useing them $62 was stolen from the first one,and $89 was stolen from the second card.That was my first and last experience with gift cards.NEVER AGAIN

I got scammed that’s why I’m looking for videos so I can see how I got scammef

Happened to me. There are thousands of complaints especially for Vanilla visa card. Beware

They don't even have to take the physical card anymore. What they do is open the package, skim the card and put the card info onto another blank card with a mag strip (which can be ordered online). It's like going and making a copy of your key for your house. Then they put the card back into the package (or ones they order online) and throw it on the shelf and wait for someone to purchase it as they check the website and wait for the money. Then they go to a self-check out and use that card to clear your account while you still have the physical card not knowing what happened. They literally don't even have to make the card look legit anymore as most places have self-checkout and don't even check. This is what just happened to me.

They just need to put all the gift cards behind the counter that would really help.

I've been scammed by this gift card thing because of lack of knowledge but now alot of people i know is telling me i shouldn't worry and do business with them through it but am still kinda scared

you can use a steamer to peel it off apart and then use a slightly strong adhesive to glue it back. Of course It has to be exact lined up so it dont look sus. Also they can use a dummy card and print the barcode on the back of them and scratching that before you open it wont work. They can also make a duplicate card but different barcode on a completely fake card. There a small machine that makes these cards and a type of typewriter machine that does the numbers

The way he is describing it is too many steps and difficult for the thief. Although, it IS one way. The way I saw a thief doing this was: I was in Walmart and saw this guy with some kind of reader machine like a crossbody purse. He grabbed the whole rack of gift cards and walked around the store as he 'scanned' each card into his machine. THEN he put all the cards back on the shelf. When someone would purchase the card and then put money on it I think it would alert him somehow and he or his people would take the money off the cards as fast as it was put on there. This particular Walmart store keeps all of the cards in a secured area now and have even stopped selling certain cards altogether. You can only get them online. I was a victim before I actually saw/caught the guy doing it. I reported him to the Walmart manager and I don't know if they informed the police or not.

@1:52 Oh! I see! By buying gift cards at a qualifying place, like grocery store ... you basically turn EVERYWHERE ELSE into a qualifying place! I get it now. Thanks for explaining, BtB. Smart!

i bought a visa secure spend gift card and the website i wanna buy from sting like 3d authorization failed how do i fix it

What to do if someone took money from Vanilla Gift card? I bought a $100 one and someone from a place that said online took that money I check a phone to call and didn't found a number can you help what to do?

2 years ago I had gotten a gift card for Christmas that a family member gotten from work for 150.00 and I go to use it and register it and it was never in the system.i called whatever number was on the back and they had no gift card number in the system so I threw it away after so long

I just opened a gift card that had been sent to me 3 months ago as a reward. The packaging does not appear to have been tampered with at all, no tears, no gluing. And the card inside is the original, no photo copy or anything. Looking at the transaction history, the company who sent it to me bought it ("in-store load"), and 25 days later it was used at a hotel. It wasn't until 5 months after that that they sent it to me in the mail, and by the time I noticed it, it's been 8 months. So if my observations are correct in that the physical packaging was not tampered with, this has to either be an inside job, or some fraudster is out there just guessing credit card numbers and expiration dates, and occasionally gets lucky. It's more likely that this is a non-contact inside job, meaning that the fraudsters have a list of credit card numbers, without having to open the packaging.

That might have happened to me, I bought gift cards for some friends and one of them came back with no funds available from what I was told so of course I had to get them another gift card and immediately I checked to see if I had money on it. And there was funds on it, but it's sad that Walmart continues to sell these gift cards knowing that people are going to get ripped off so anyone out there do yourself a favor don't buy gift cards at Walmart.

This was very educational. Thanks ❤ 😊 Great job

i bought a gift card and now this morning i try to use it and it says i used it on dish when i dont even have dish and its in a hole other location i live in alabama its a hole different state

i bought a boost mobile card at Walmart went home scratched the back off called the number and a recording said the card is invalid? I went back to Walmart and they said they couldn't give me my money back because the card had already been used??? SO i called boost and a nice guy i talked to said that when i went to the cash register and swiped the card the card was then invalided? right at that moment? then i called walmarts ceo and told him what happened and he told me to go to be at the store and he will instruct them to give me my money back! well they made me wait for over a half an hour till i got pissed off!! i will never buy another card!!

I thought of this one at least ten years ago… All you have to do is go boost a bunch of cards and then plant them back. Super easy.

Was anyone refunded from GC department ?? I just bought one to make an online purchase and didn't realize it had a barcode sticker until I opened at home, I tried activating online was not able, I called the phone number on the back they said it had no funds. They were really rude and hung up on me when I was asking to get it resolved.

Gift cards can be registered under your name, but nobody, including myself, ever takes the time to do it. So gift cards are basically anonymous.

It's not a inside job .they use an exacto knife like a really sharp surgical tool or put it in an environment such as like a sauna the moisture in the hot-air will loosen the glue back up.

What do you mean at 8:13 little piece of paper? The paper that is in there ? Is it not suppose to be In there ?

These gift cards also charge 7% off the top to purchase then. Hard to get that back on some bargain, and way more than sending a money order or check

I only got to use half of my gift card, before it went to no funds, and it is an absolute nightmare to protest a fraudulent purchase. A. There is no number listed in which an actual person is available.B. it took weeks just to get the forms filled out and hear back from someone who of course was absolutely useless. Never again never. Still haven't got ny $50 back. Don't care about the money so much but it's the feeling of getting burnt that sux. Oh well 50 but to learn the hard way

so about a year ago i bought a moneycard but i have to to moeny in it but the cashier told me that i had to authorize it but idk how or y?

It would be easier just to clone the gift card then leave the original one at the store. You would still have to tamper with the package unless you’re an insider though.

I got an email from wisely saying that my card has been declined from not enough funds and apparently I tried to use it on apple. But the thing is, I never got that card before and I never been on apple. So I dunno if someone has been using a card under my email somehow or, if it's just a phishing email.

Don't even have a card but watching you is just really interesting

Thank 😊 You So Much For The Info. It will come in handy to with amazon gift cards I love to get. I have whether I get a amazon or visa . One question ? Does the cashier refund ur visa or amazon if u show them its tampered with

Thanks for this great information. I will check my GIF cards after i buy it.

so if i ordered the egift card from the website is it safe? the 1 star reviews have me sketched out..

i misplaced my bank debit card a few months ago. o went to my bank and they printed me a new card while I was there.

This is so fucking heartbreaking. Especially since I don't have money like that only get it on my birthdays. This rewlly ruined my whole day and I hate people.

Thank you. This happened to me at Christmas time. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get reimbursed. $100 lost.

This just happened to me. We got a Walmart visa gift card a year ago as wedding gift. Tried to use it yesterday and found there is no value left. I still have the original gift card though.. not sure what to do next. Called Walmart and got transferred 3-4 times to dispute but got disconnect each time…

Extremely interesting and informative

Thanks for the info I was planning of getting one

Goods tips. I mostly use them as quick as I can as well

That is what different people wants me to get to them on Facebook all the time and when i don't do it they don't want to talk to me anymore that is how sorry they are to me

this just happened to me, lost $30 on $500 card.. what bothers me is that they can see my address and full name if they can can login with my card info to see the transactions. I was wondering how someone got my card info. The lengths these scummy people will go to, to avoid working.

Awesome side hustle learned alot will add this to my job profolio thks man!

Can they use a gift card to get your bank if I purchase the gift card with cash

I’m really hesitant on buying a vanilla visa gift card cause I’m really worried the card won’t work properly and I’ve lost money just like that (it also doesn’t help that it’s not refundable)

Hi there, I watched all of your videos. If I buy a gift card in the store and send it to someone via message, is there any risk of that person getting access to my bank account? Thank you.

Yeah I just bought a Vanilla Visa card, $200 balance, waiting literally two days and now it’s empty, was put on hold for over 50 minutes with no response from the company, will try again tomorrow

Thank you for the info

But don’t you have to scratch off the greyed out barcode in order to get to the barcode?

Today at Safeway someone give me a gif card I didn’t used it I’m not sure l look at the bar code it was stuck in the plastic was printed on card I should ask them about the card .

Hello - question for you: are will willing add me as a AU to any of you cards for a price?? Possibly the grandfather card? I don’t want a copy of your card. I would just want the trade line

bought one and it didnt activate and customer service is a joke they also tried to tell me it took 2 days for them to get an email.

5 months later n I received a check in the mail after filling out paperwork online for my fraudulent changes

Great info! My question is that we recently received 2 gift cards totaling $400 (one in June and one in July) from what appears to be a local charitable organization. They were shipped and delivered through Amazon However I can't google and find the organization online anywhere and people in my town haven;t heard of it either. However, we've actually used one of the cards and it does appear to have money on it. Haven't tried the second one yet. Not sure how this is a scam and I can't find any info about how this could be a scam but it definitely doesn't smell right.

A good way to catch these people would be to watch for these people who are checking an accounts balance more often than others,,,,

I need some help i don't know if my card is fake the person says someone used it or something in January they asked for my address and my name i gave it but i felt weird about it so i hanged up. i'm a bit worried i never used a prepaid gift card. can someone help me if it is a fake or not.

Do you have any idea how to use steam wallet gift card as money or change it in cash!? I have some steam wallet gift cards I need to change them in cash or use them as money otherwise it would be expired soon

This scam is scary, I use my vanilla gift card every day and I get a new one ever month. I norm put on like 200-300 USD on it as thats the amount I want but I am always scared that ima get robbed and if I get robbed then what?

Why don't MasterCard put hard ass seal box like they do on DVD case?

I've been the victim of one of these scams. Vanilla gift card disputes are no help

Will you making a video on the space shuttle? I found your channel through your lego porsche video lol.

Basically there are people alive today who would make the world a better place by dying. How scammers can live with themselves for their actions is unbelievably pathetic.

Ive had this done to me at the store I work at like 4 times lol

I think there is a way to enter the gift cards on Amazon too

All of the scammers needs to die in prison makes me sick they going to deserve for what they did

You have one thing wrong is that you have the original card in hand they simply take pictures or keep in note the original card number and they scratch off the 3 digits cvv code and or the last 4 digits in the front And they démagnétised the swipe so it make it unusable !!!😢

I got one there was no papper inside the card and I did a video about this also and I hate these scammers

I have fallen victim to a scammer and he told me to buy him a gift card and I will receive the product. After buying and redeeming the code for this person, they just blocked me and never gave me the product :( Can I be able to dispute even though I bought the card from a trusted website but gave the code to the scammer?

Thats why when i get visa cards i buy e gift cards like amzon with them

I've had the misfortune of purchasing several bad cards. The stores I bought them from have a policy that when you buy a card and it is bad they will not refund your money. Then you need to call and make a claim with the card company and that doesn't always go in your favor. So no matter what it's very risky to use gift cards. So beware and good luck

Sick and tired of thieves , my debit card was stolen and uses 4000. I'm so sad

OMG 😳. The damn scams that are out here are unbelievable.

How call gift card scammers redeem these gift cards ?

Can’t you also avoid the scam by just not activating the card until you decide to make a purchase? Like I wanna buy a graphics card for a game and since they aren’t available due to shortages and they are expensive I will activate it when they’re available and then spend all of it at once... so that would work too right? Apologies if stupid question, I mean it definitely is a dumb question if you plan on using the card for regular normal use and not spending all of your money at once

They're fricking useless at most places online. Go ahead, try to use one when you sign-up for services (VPN, Streaming services, etc...). They will not recognize your pre-paid card making them useless.

The stores should be responsible for the fraud

Stores have a process were funds are loaded if they pay

teach us about other forms of fraud that you are knowledgeable about - identity fraud, title fraud etc - do you protect yourself against any of these things - how?

3m adhesive, they not only make strips but also adhesive spray

Thanks for the method time to get to work 🙏

This happens in Walmart every day. Especially with older people. I see it every day

The security thing.. how do I report my money stolen? I was waiting on hold with visa to “report the card lost or stolen” but it wasn’t the card.. it’s the money! I hung up when I realized no one is going to answer.

Now to remember where i left th card! I had bough a 50 dollar giftcard and forgot to keep track ! Good video.thanks!

I got one for Christmas and it was spent 2 days ago cities over before I even took off the sticker.

Good Advise, Thanks !

I would like to inform us the viewer by the video being posted that's evidence enough for them to know how we do it so that they remedy a plot to stop us from trying to save

Thank you for informing

It made my dad think that I spend it on a app that scammed but it didn't and he won't believe me so it's Vanilla card fault never buying again

Damn I just bought one of these as a gift and the thing don’t work at all 😭😭😭😭

they need to put more cameras where the employees are putting the cards in the package so they can get caught and fired by the company....its best just to get a reloadable gift card till visa finds a better way of proofing there package...sooo can this be done also w/xbox gift cards aswell...ya...i just went to one of my xbox gift cards...one of the bar code is scrathing right off while the other one isnt...so u can get a fake xbox gift card aswell...& 2b safe always keep receipt & package so when u call visa u can take a pic & send it to visa support to verify that the card & package w/receipt all match up...so nvr throw package away...until u verify that ur money has been loaded....but w/xbox gift cards its paper sealed...u cant glue that once its tampered w/the 1st time so i dont no how any1 can get around that to fake that card...& visa should go w/the way xbox package there cards...where u peel off the package to get to it...that is soooo much more tamper proof...

The tamper proof packages can be made with a printer designed for it. Different printer but same concept as printing fake or legit ID cards, every gym membership card was made by printer. But since the dawn of scams employees have assisted for max risk & low as reward or were patient and are making all or most scam revenue and used patients watching and charisma to allow questions they ask to get quality answer's. Or they have a a partner doing it....but? I worked at a pawn shop and 1 younger adult and another a adult just few years older, but not adolescents under 25... Younger one was probably 30 and the other 45ish and they brought in to sell a card printer, raised letters, holographic symbol capable, magnetic strip. Just like a Credit card uses AND and YMCA membership card, or university student cards, in Canada every person has a medical card with those features with more so haven't named and I bet a few that aren't intended for public knowledge, not like merchants check more than one or two security features that take zero time especially in a line up. And online checkouts have never asked anyone I know to show the physical card to the camera and then try to angle the card so that holographic picture that nobody notices because it's under a square inch and theres only one per bill so you gotta check every corner. Anyone with basic understanding of how the price discovery process works to determine what something costs.....Supply and Demand, the more the demand with less supply (many buyers and not as many sellers) price goes up. Sooooo if the buyer could get and use multiple or higher limit scammed credit card and be anonymous they could drive the price up....Hello Bitcoin, or for this video creator Dogecoin or any crypto that is anonymous and they all are but as you spend more it wouldn't hurt to spend a few dollars (literally a few,) and do things to enhance privacy. If 1000 scammers during a week bought $1000 in Bitcoin twice a weekand didn't sell it until an agreed price hit or amount of time.....the effect would be basically what Bitcoin has been doing for 12 years. And as the younger move in as the less tech savvy parents generation retire and consult, this will be wild. Many elderly won't try Bitcoin they can't adapt.....not just card scams, how many drug originating countries like Columbia for example have bosses with so much cash, they have to use forklifts to fill up another wearhouse with crates of USD currency most often $100 bills. They put USD $100 bills inside walls of homes and homes and other buildings specifically for the children globally to hide it from DEA seizure or similar govt agency.... they are choosing US currency because it's an effective store of value against inflation. They want borderless, secure, inflation resistant deflation in fact. Very private even without adding extra, and they can always add privacy features later, every few months they could mix coins with others or bounce Bitcoin around in different amounts (that's called ricochet and the general rule is to have it do 7 different ricochets or move to 7 address (each of the 7 address the money stops at belongs to you anyway) And you could do 50 or more and you could move it to the next address in seconds or some seconds a few address are hours and add one or two stops for a full day or even week. That ricochet is just one of many extra privacy tools Bitcoin has.... that one is chosen to do and how many directly from the app on your phone. You could sell the Bitcoin into another coin that isn't garbage and will hold value long enough to rebuy the Bitcoin in different sized amounts so there's ismt a clear pattern of this morning Bitcoin worth 2 million was sold and then for 8 consecutive days every morning at exactly 8am on Coinbase Bitcoin is bought worth 500k UD and another each evening on Coinbase for $500k at 8pm. Coinbase years ago has hinted that they wouldn't do any business with Bitcoin they could prove is "tainted" because it was used to finance terror or drugs or potentially anything the govt asked. And the choice was made dirty Bitcoin would be considered untainted by Coinbase after it moved 7 times. It didn't actually happen as I understand but it shut up regulator's a few years so Bitcoin could mature but that rule was so silly. Anyone could just send Bitcoin with one cell phone to different addresses even with the same wallet, the fee per send will need to be paid 7 times and sometimes i have been paying over a dollar occasionally I pay $5 just because it must be arriving in maximum 10 minutes or less. Same fee regardless of 1 million USD in Bitcoin or $5 bucks in Bitcoin the fee isn't connected to how much your sending. $1 is the same as $1k..every 10 mins a new block is added to the blockchain. The blocks do fill up, so a higher fee gives the miner more money to pick the higher fee. Although a block today still is not always ful and a holds so many more transactions than they did just 3 or 4 years ago. Exchanges like Coinbase until recently put each transaction in the block individually, and the exchanges do so many the exchanges over the years some immediately some took years updated their systems to batch many transactions together even batching 10 peoples transactions together let's my more people in a block (just batching the sender's information instead of repeating Coinbase over and over its wasteful data) now hundreds a few times daily are common and some batches are every 2 hours to get as many as possible to join but people love the 10 minutes max.....but free markets work. Eventually Bitcoin will have high enough fees that people will decide to share the fee between 400 others...I'd sometimes wait say 2 hours if the fee was $20 and became under $0.10 each. Everyone wins....and when the next generation drug cartel owners take over and they begin buying Bitcoin using forklifts to get the cash into the truck... image that demand Or just the demand from business owners using Bitcoin to hide money. It's all happening now. Yet it's the millenials who never knew a world without internet and are not afraid of Bitcoin the way our grandparents seemed baffled by a commodore 64....the same grandparents who think money is backed up with gold.....it's only backed by what we believe. Lose faith in some currency and it becomes hyperinflation as history has proven over and over because people steal, Bitcoins code has never been hacked, despite daily attacks on Bitcoin a new word has organically come up describing Bitcoin. Never before has something been called "antifragile" The dark web marketplaces number 1 product that has the price being adjust upward to most frequently by far is peoples identify information used to apply for cards

Any lawyers on here? Can you sue the store that sold this to you? Because if it was tampered with before purchase and they sold it to you and charged money to the wrong card, pretty sure thats fraud on part of the store even though unintentional. Believe it would fall under criminal negligence for them not verifying their product was exactly as they marketed it for sale in their store.

Any idea would help me alot thanks

Uff, thanks for the video. The way they scammed us was they scratched out some the 16-digit numbers so we couldn't purchase anything with the card or check the balance. The 1-800 number is worthless. Guess I should have not taken the easy route and instead put some thought into my kid's gifts. lol These cards get funded as soon as you purchase them, so if you don't use them right away the chances of beating them to the punch is slim. Bought mine at a Walgreens, so it's not just Walmart.

of course.... the fraudsters could be printing on plastic cards as well that would also look real through the window. Perhaps there is a company that produces/copies the gift card envelopes and can just "run a few extra". They are going to have to come up with something better

good to know ,thanks

You’d need to have the patience of a Buddhist monk to meticulously open a gift card package and wait everyday and check to hopefully get $100 dollars.

Hello, I just recently had my visa gift card stolen, they emptied it of $450. It never left my desk. According to the transactions, it was used in store. I have the card, there is no tampering with the physical card. Is there any chance that the cashier who activated it stole the card? What do you think happened?

I just got me a GO2bank card what do u think of that card