
Gift Card Fraud: Emerging Trends & Risks
Jersey City Public Safety Center 356 Martin Luther King Dr., Jersey City, NJ, United StatesMETRORCA 2025 Fall Training Day The emerging landscape of Gift Card Fraud is increasingly dominated by Chinese Organized Retail Crime (ORC) groups employing sophisticated, multi-stage schemes. One primary trend is gift card draining, where criminals steal un-activated cards, tamper with the packaging to capture the card and PIN information, and then place the compromised cards […]