[core-utility]

People get scammed with telephones and 7-eleven gift cards, should we ban those too? Bans only target the symptoms while ignoring the root cause and hurting the 99.999% of valid use in the process.

And as another pointed out, this scam involved no actual crypto.

[shkkmo]

> 7-eleven gift cards, should we ban those too?

Yes, actually.

While a complete gift card ban is possibly not necessary, I do think there is a strong need to place legal limitations on their use and transferability to reduce or eliminate the degree to which they enable scammers.

Stores have done a little bit to try to combat this at the point of sale but it isn't nearly enough.

On the telephone side, I think we need to start holding phone companies liable if a spoofed number was used in a scam. It is ridiculous that they still haven't been able to solve that issue after years of effort and legistlation.

[bombcar]

We also need more "public service" announcements - and not the 30 second boring ads, but actual plot points in movies and TV be centered around these common scams. If (I have no idea what's popular now, but let's say Marvel) a movie had a crypto scam as a central point, it would educate people way more than any number of government warnings.

[shkkmo]

Education would be a great stop gap, but I still think we need to close the hole thay is being used. One example would be requiring gift cards to be bound to a name on purchase and have IDs checked when it is used.