The gift card scam spreading across Australia | ABC NEWS
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An ABC investigation has discovered gift cards that have been tampered with are being sold by Australia's biggest supermarkets, with charges even being laid over the issue. It is leaving shoppers confused and stressed, and raising questions about whether this is linked to a multi-billion-dollar criminal scam. The ABC has inspected customers' receipts, gift card photos, and correspondence with companies like Coles, Apple and Australia's gift card distributors. Apple declined our request for an interview but did defend its packaging, which it changed early last year. Coles says "gift card tampering and fraud is an evolving challenge affecting retailers and customers both in Australia and internationally, and Coles takes the issue extremely seriously." While Woolworth said, "tampering affects a small proportion of our gift cards and is a shared problem across the retail industry." ABC News can reveal that last year, Coles worked with police to bust a member of an alleged criminal syndica
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