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GiftCards.com is an online gift-card retailer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] The company sells gift cards for thousands of different large corporate retailers and small businesses [3] including Vanillagifts.com, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Sephora, Coach, Amazon.com, and others.
A gift card, also known as a gift certificate in North America, or gift voucher or gift token in the UK, [1] is a prepaid stored-value money card, usually issued by a retailer or bank, to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses. Gift cards are also given out by employers or organizations ...
Gift card fraud is on the rise. The Federal Trade Commission reports that gift card fraud has been on the rise since the pandemic started. In the first nine months of 2021, more gift card fraud ...
Visa was sued on Tuesday by consumers who said the card payments network failed to make prepaid "Vanilla" gift cards less likely to being drained by thieves. Ira Schuman, who leads the proposed ...
The reason why prepaid Visa Vanilla gift cards as well as other prepaid gift cards are being targeted by card draining scams is because of their versatility. These kinds of cards “can be used ...
Stored-value cards are prepaid money cards and may be disposed when the value is used, or the card value may be topped up, as in the case of telephone calling cards or when used as a fare card. The term closed-loop means the funds and/or data are physically stored on the token or card in the form of binary-coded data.
At first glance, gift cards and gift vouchers seem pretty similar. Both typically have a value that shoppers can apply to their purchases from a certain brand. Both have physical and digital forms.
The company handles 45% of all US credit and debit transactions, including handling prepaid gift card processing for many US brands such as Starbucks. [3] [4] It processes around 2,800 transactions per second and $2.2 trillion in card transactions annually, [5] with an 80% market share in gas and groceries in 2014. [6]