Investigators say scammers are placing fake barcodes on the back of gift ... Another scam is when scammers take off the gift card pin code and leave you without a way to redeem the card.

A federal judge ruled that Apple may have financially benefitted by allowing thieves to steal gift card codes and make purchases in apps where ... monetarily from sophisticated schemes that employ ...

Donghui Liao was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for replacing Target gift cards with fake ones in a scheme spanning nearly 30 states. While Liao's lawyer argued he was a low-level player ...