How Visa Gift Card Scams Work 

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

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.

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

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.

@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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This was very educational. Thanks ❤ 😊 Great job

People actually do this? Wow that just seems like a lot of effort for what is probably $100 per card. Then would be a pain in the ass unless you have some auto checking software.

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

First clue to a scammer is the foreign accent.

Man im just tryna find a way to send my visa to my bank acc not find about abt dumbass scams.

Some girls were trying to give away gift cards today. We knew something wasn’t right

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

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.

they need to stop selling these.

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.

Extremely interesting and informative

I think I have a solution for this if you’re willing to listen to me well when you buy a gift card the cash register at ejects Ella piece of paper with the code on it and saying that you bought it you know it’s like a receipt but have fun when they are when I get this card they must activate it themselves when they activated they just use the code from that little receipt that’s ejected from the register maybe that might help make it fraud proof I’m not really sure let me know what you think and thank you for listening to me

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

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

At 2:15 video mark/ how the scam can work. /Thank you!

listen up here is how you do it. you take 2 cards from the store or how many u want but 2 per 1 you will scam with then on one of them photo copy barcode and put it on the other one without having to tamer with because all that matters is that barcode u photo copied gets scanned and your good

Alternate tittle how to make a lot of money using credit cards

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.

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.

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!!

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

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?

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

Stores and supermarkets must stop selling these cards, it helps them to scam people from buying such bogus cards otherwise I'd say they are into this kind of business...cheating people.

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

They stole all my money 🤣

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

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

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

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

He don't know what the hell he's taking about😂 he's assuming that's how they do it😂😂😂 wrong bucko😂😂😂😂

It is an inside job because they're doing with all the eBay cards

I think their system is terrible because I often can't check my card balance and I lose a lot of money.

Bought a card with 50 bucks in it then the next day it was used to buy a 49 dollar purse don’t buy the cards they ain’t worth it

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

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

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.

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

Just got scammed out of $1500.00 from some pretending to be Avis car rental

So that’s how I got scamed bro I bought a 25$ one and it had no money on it

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

This Is Lacking No Real Detail Of How Gift Card Scam Works 🤔

I hope all the scammers out there burn in hell remember you will come face to face with GOD

I had someone try to scare me on Facebook marketplace

They just print out the barcode on plastic stickers and put it over the real one without opening anything

No I opened it they wouldnt refund me. I had to call the 800 number they sent a new card with my name on it. sucks it happened to me three times. learned my lesson not to purchase them anymore

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.

Mf just got me today went to Walmart loaded $180 5 minutes later $174 was gone I called visa gift card customer service and they told me the money was spent in Los Angeles I’m in Charlotte 🤦🏽‍♂️ I seen this scam on the news a while back smmfh

The stores should be responsible for the fraud

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.

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.

Jesus Christ loves you repent from all sins amen

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

You can actually open it b4 you pay for it. Nus sayin.

Ty for this because this happened to me because someone gave me a Visa card then after the day I got it, the next day my $50 was gone but i when on the online website and saw a Asian company name that owns some online shops one of them was Weee and then I got the number of the Company and I demanded my money back and in 2 days they gave me my money back and then I spent it the same day so they wouldn’t take the money back.

Unbelievable and costly to consumers

Those scammers can steal cards and return the cards tampered with

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

They are smart Ive alway thinking its a night employees scam 😄 🤣 😂 you makes more sense here they got another level mouahahaha thx for the video bro

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.

That's why I trust the green dot card, and customer service are Indian

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

Are you going make dogecoin video update. So many negative news against crypto currency. Our dogecoin party need to wait a little while for now.

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.

whew...Jesus...this sound like too much work!

20-24 credit cards? Didn’t even know you could apply for so many different cards dayum

The company's are doing this, it's an inside job 😂

There is a better way then inserting a photo copy lol. Beginners rofl. Not an inside job. Usually a 1 or 2 man job.

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.

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

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

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

i’ve been scammed way too many times 💀

I GOT SCAMMED! The person claimed to be in another country doing contract work and gave me pretty good pictures! This has been happening to alot of people! I reported it to FBI and my local police department! GET THE WORD OUT! The stores NEED to pull ALL gift cards from ALL STORES!

This is way to complex. The people who do visa or gift card scams have a much easier way

They got me with this one. Lost $100 in minutes

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...

Thanks for the info I was planning of getting one

I probably would pass on if any type of visa gift card is worthless or so.......

I literally just got scammed and I was tryna figure out how in the world. Bruh why I open this gift card and I see the scratched off security code. I wanna screammmmmm I just bought $100

I just bought one today and by the time I got home (10 minutes later) I went to activate it and checked the balance first and the money was already gone. Do not buy these or else

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