As consumers lose millions to gift card scams, lawmakers pressure businesses - NH Business Review

NH Business Review

As consumers lose millions to gift card scams, lawmakers pressure businesses - NH Business Review

When Denise Brown peruses the tightly packed gift card display at her local CVS in Harlem, New York, she sees the perfect present for her grandson: a Sony PlayStation gift card. Others, acting in bad faith, see these gift card displays as easy money in one of the country’s costliest and most common consumer scams: card draining. Scammers drain a gift card by obtaining the bar code, CVV number, PIN number, or activation code from beneath the slim…