Take care when purchasing Apple gift cards

[RealtimeY]

Today I went into a Woolies to take advantage of the 20x points on Apple gift cards offer.

I bought 7 gift cards, of which 3 had been tampered with. The staff made sure to open the gift cards in front of me before scanning them through, which is how these were detected and I was very thankful that they did.

So, if you are buying Apple gift cards (or any gift cards), always make sure to check that the inner and outer serial codes match, ideally before paying, and redeem the value of them sooner rather than later.

 

[FlyingFiona]

Today I went into a Woolies to take advantage of the 20x points on Apple gift cards offer.

I bought 7 gift cards, of which 3 had been tampered with. The staff made sure to open the gift cards in front of me before scanning them through, which is how these were detected and I was very thankful that they did.

So, if you are buying Apple gift cards (or any gift cards), always make sure to check that the inner and outer serial codes match, ideally before paying, and redeem the value of them sooner rather than later.

That's really good that they proactively checked the numbers for you. I purchased a card recently and only when I was in the processes of checking out did I think to check for tampering. The cashier was very frustrated at the 5 second interruption while I did that.

 

[RealtimeY]

They said that others had fallen victim to it at the store. I couldn't imagine taking an invalid gift card back to the retailer days or weeks after the fact and trying to argue that $1500 of it was fraudulent.

 

[Saab34]

Be careful with any giftcards.

A trick which I know someone who got caught with at Coles recently, was scammers are talking a bunch of gift cards from shelf, going away, photocopying the barcodes, going back to store sticking them on other cards, then someone buys the card and the scammer already has the original with the pin.