I work in retail . and there is a way to scam gift cards . Some stores are trained to avoid it but some are not . What you do is call late at night when the stocking crew is working . Pretend to be from corporate IT department and you need to perform a system check on the gift cards . They grab the gift cards off the shelf and you have them read you the barcode on the back . And then have them scan it to test the register . Then tell them to hit the cash button . Now hang up . This happened for several months at my retailer a couple years ago . Thousands were lost . And it still works to this day . Social engineering at its finest . <| sep |> Doesn ' t look like a penis at all . <| sep |> Thunder on Friday to get back on track . Who ' s going ?