[mdszy]

Stores already do tons of stuff to try to thwart these.

I worked at a store years ago and we had all these things implemented:

- Limit on gift card purchase amounts per customer, per day.

- Stopped stocking Western Union cards because they were such a scam target.

- There was also a scam where scammers would call the store itself to pose as a "corporate employee" who was "trying to verify that the gift card redemption system was working" and would have the cashier activate a gift card, run it as cash, and read off the numbers. And apparently that worked well enough that every time we activated certain gift cards, a massive box popped up on the POS screen saying "IF THIS TRANSACTION IS HAPPENING OVER THE PHONE, HANG UP IMMEDIATELY AND CANCEL THE TRANSACTION."

At a certain point there's only so much that can be done by the store itself.