How to avoid a gift card scam that could ruin Christmas

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Be careful this holiday shopping season. Scammers are increasingly using gift cards as a way to steal your money.

But you need to be especially vigilant this holiday season, because scammers are increasingly using gift cards as a way to steal your money.

"When we got home, one had been tampered with," she said, showing a card that she claims had been opened and resealed. "A very easy tactic that scammers have deployed." he said,"is going into the local grocery store, and steal all the information off the card because they don't need the actual card anymore."

Meantime, Planos says the problem is so widespread that you should be cautious of re-sell sites advertising gift cards at steep discounts."If you could go directly to the source, that's always gonna be the best approach," he said.

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