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Any-Growth8158 t1_je6prmb wrote

Gift cards can easily be converted to cash relatively easily and anonymously. You can do so without being in physical possession of the card--you generally just need to know the card's number.

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IndependenceCold4261 OP t1_je6q13k wrote

they’re usually scams. how do they make money off those scams?

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Any-Growth8158 t1_je6qrop wrote

I said how they make money. Gift cards are easily (and legally) able to be converted into cash. There is a secondary market for gift cards where people will pay you pennies on the gift card's monetary value. If you have nothing but time investing in obtaining the gift card then it is pure profit.

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evanamd t1_je6vf62 wrote

You said how gift cards are worth money. You didn’t say how promising a victim a gift card in exchange for money leads to the scammer obtaining a gift card

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