If you bought a Costco gift card for a birthday and found the balance at zero before your friend could even say thank you, ...

With the holiday season comes more shopping and with more shopping comes more scams and fraudsters looking to take advantage of your holiday goodwill. From supposed charities looking for "donations" ...

Scammers cover up real gift card barcodes with custom codes, allowing them to quietly load your cash onto their cards at checkout. Scammers have come up with a new, hard-to-detect way to earn money ...

In the summer of 2021, several readers asked Snopes to investigate a suspicious-looking promotion for a free $3,000 gift card for the Publix supermarket chain. Readers reported receiving direct ...

A carefully orchestrated “gift card draining” scam allowed two men from the San Gabriel Valley to access the funds from activated gift cards that were sold at more than 200 CVS stores ...