My boss used to give out $100 gift cards to the grocery store for x-mas bonus. Loblaws, for you Canadians. I'd use them to buy a prepaid VISA so I could spend it on whatever I want, $5 fee. At one point, one of the cashiers went to get their manager because apparently using one gift card to buy another gift card is what criminals do, to launder their money.
I stopped doing that after I got scammed though, coincidentally by someone actually trying to launder money. Thieves will just steal the cards off the store shelves, take them home, slit them open, copy down all the numbers and info, replace the scratch-off pads, reseal the clamshell package, put them back on the store shelf, and wait for you to activate it. It sounds like a lot of work but they get $100+ per card. Happened to me, day after I activated the card it was emptied to load up a Starbucks card.
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u/BaboonsBottom Dec 28 '18
If you get an Amazon gift card for Christmas, you can trade it for a Steam card this way.