The gift card industry is booming — and so is related fraud and organized crime

The gift card industry is booming — and so is related fraud and organized crime

Joan Oanes says she was baffled to learn a gift card she had purchased had been drained of all its money. The $50 Lululemon gift card was bought last October at a Shoppers Drug Mart location in Brampton, Ont., and given

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